Re: Web Services (Retouch)


"Howard Brazee" <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:53:09 +1200, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

VS 2005, ASP.NET ... makes you wonder what we could have done with COBOL
if
it had had such an IDE... :-)

(Probably not much more than we did anyway, but we certainly could have
done
it quicker...:-))

I'm thinking of how many people in the many shops I've worked in have
used interactive debuggers for CoBOL beyond trying them out.

That would be zero.

I always use Intertest when testing CICS COBOL programs. Before Intertest I
think the one I used was called ADS (Advanced Debugging Syetem). I do not
think I have ever used batch Intertest which is not very "interactive"
anyway. Display statements and the rare dump seem enough for batch. I did
use COBTEST a few times before they changed it.

When I programmed on VM in assembler they has something called "per" (not
the hardware facility although it may have interacted with that facility).
It was great. You could tell it to watch an address range and it would stop
you program and report whenever any storage in that range was modified.


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