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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 10, 2009

Display Cobol tables and PL/I arrays, single dimension & multi-dimension like native language in the RDz Monitor window

Take a 3 dimensional Cobol table that looks like this:
01 TABLE1.
02 TABLE1B OCCURS 2 TIMES.
03 SUB-TABLE OCCURS 3 TIMES.
05 SUB-TAB-ID PIC XXX.
05 REC-FORMAT OCCURS 75 TIMES.
07 SEG-IND PIC X.
07 SEG-ID PIC XXX.
07 ADDR-OF-SEG POINTER.
When I monitor the variable ADDR-OF-SEG, RDz displays in the monitor window this:
- ADDR-OF-SEG
+ [0...99]
+ [100...199]
+ [200...299]
+ [300...399]
+ [400...449]
This looks like 1 dimension, 450 occurrences rather than 3 dimensions
2 x 3 x 75.
It may be easier to display the way it's doing it, but it makes it more difficult to locate a specific occurrence if necessary and looks invalid, not like a 3 dimensional table. It could be confusing to programmers trying to debug code to see it displayed like this. Is their code incorrect, something wrong with it to cause it to display like this? It would look more like Cobol if it displayed something like this:
- ADDR-OF-SEG (1,n,n)
- [1,1,n]
- [1...75]
- [1,2,n]
- [1...75]
- [1,3,n]
- [1...75]
- ADDR-OF-SEG (2,n,n)
- [2,1,n]
- [1...75]
- [2,2,n]
- [1...75]
- [2,3,n]
- [1...75] and so on.
Working with Franka Sinason, she has indicated that C/C++ displays multi-dimension arrays like this:
- intArray
- intArray[0]
- intArray [0][0] value
- intArray [0][1] value
- intArray [0][2] value
- intArray [0][3] value
- intArray [0][4] value
+ intArray[1]
+ intArray[2]
This is from the variable window but this format would be an improvement over the existing monitor display.

Idea priority Medium
  • 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
    Reply
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    Apr 12, 2009

    This requirement should be filed against the host Debug Tool. The Debug Tool uses a separate tracking tool for requirements and one has been opened up for this request. The reference number is MR0326092343.