Re: Web Services (Retouch)

In article <1183198186.777122.162140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
razor <iruddock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Pardon my ignorance as I've never programmed on mainframe, but do you
(Mainframe programmers) not have access (even by now) to a good
debugger for testing?

I know that I've never worked in a shop that had an installed, working,
mainframe debugger for batch programs, no. InterTest would be available
for CICS and I remember a site or two that used Xpeditor for online code,
as well.

For batch, though, it has always been DISPLAY and READY TRACE... until
support for the latter was dropped. Just the other day, though, I made
use of one of those 'new-fangled' debugging options; a lot of code in this
shop is built on a skeleton that contains:

DECLARATIVES.
COBOL-II-DEBUG SECTION.
USE FOR DEBUGGING
ON ALL PROCEDURES.
COBOL-II-DEBUG-PARA.
SET TRACE-ON TO TRUE
IF TRACE-ON
DISPLAY DEBUG-NAME
END-IF.
END DECLARATIVES.

.... and I'm aware that COBOLII is no longer supported... but a bit of
manual-searching (wonderful thing, this WorldWide Web) showed me

//STEP EXEC PGM=PROGNAM,PARM='STUFF ,/DEBUG'

.... and it was almost like having IKFCBL00 back... brought a tear to my
eye, it did.

DD
.

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