Re: Ping: Robert
- From: Robert <no@xxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:13:58 -0500
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:11:40 -0500, SeaSideSam <Sam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
offsets came in handy when working with dump listing (and i thought you
Why do you need offsets? I've needed them only once, when creating a record description
for ODBC access to flat files.
an oldtymer...)
With Micro Focus on Unix, one runs 'anim (dump file name)'. Shazam .. source code appears
with values next to each data name, and the cursor on the line that caused the abend.
I haven't used a dump in well over 20 years. I've demonstrated the above to former
mainframers transitioning to Unix. They didn't believe me when I said dumps are not
needed.
I thought all mainframe shops had AbendAid, which shows you the line and the variables it
references. Even that is overkill. All you really need is the line number. In the days of
VSE, early '80s, there was a compiler option that made it report the line number where the
program crashed. That was all I used 99% of the time.
.
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