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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 9, 2008

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Need easy way to enter some data in hex on expression of breakpoints

When entering data in the EXPRESSION field on the optional parameters panel for a BREAKPOINT I don't have an easy way of entering just one byte of a 20 byte value that is a non displayable hex value. Say I want the expression to be: CARD="ALL CHAR DISAPLY VALUES BUT ONE " The last position is a non display character that is Hex '08'. On the host you would just turn hex on for the display values and be able to type in the x'08' for the one position. Would I have to type in the whole string as hex format to get this to work? Ie

CARD =x'C1D3D340C3C8C1D940C4C9E2...08'

The current version does not handle the hex notation.

That would be hard to do and if the string was long very painful. On the host you have to allow for hex values inside a string for expressions.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Developer for System z

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for System z

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 1, 2011

    What is the reason this was rejected? I see This requirement is being tracked by the Debug Tool product in the FITS database. Reference number MR0216092336.
    ( 20 Feb 2009, 11:13 AM Eastern Time (ET) ) . Was it rejected because it was moved to the Debug tool database?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 20, 2009

    This requirement is being tracked by the Debug Tool product in the FITS database. Reference number MR0216092336.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 25, 2008

    Hi,

    After some discussion among our development team, we believe this is a feature that needs to be implemented by Debug Tool.

    To make sure we understand your requirement, you're looking for a way to specify an Expression that would allow you to monitor a specific position of a variable in HEX when you select Add Breakpoint > Statement .. > Expression.

    Something like CARD(19:20) = X'08'

    Is that correct?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 7, 2008

    Yes, we are using the latest Enterprise COBOL and PL/I. We also have IBM Debug Tool 8.1.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 1, 2008

    What version is the COBOL compiler? Is it for Enterprise COBOL?

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