CICS Program Debugging with XPEDITER
- Recommended Duration:
- 1-2 Days
- Version
- CICS XPEDITER Version 7 Course is suitable for XPEDITER version 5 and 6 also.
- Benefits
- Students will learn to test/debug CICS programming problems and abends using the XPEDITER product. Greater productivity and accuracy result from fully understanding the debugging process.
- Audience
- CICS programmers who will use the XPEDITER tool to debug programs.
- Prerequisites
- The student entering this course should have 6 months recent experience programming in CICS or have completed the "CICS Command Level Coding" course within the last 12 months.
- Major Topics
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- XPED transaction
- XPSP transaction
- XPRT transaction
- NEWC transaction
- Unconditional breakpoints
- Conditional breakpoints
- Single step testing
- Resume options
- Abend handling
- TRACE summary
- TRAP summary
- Viewing and modifying storage
- Storage violation protection
- Related CICS tools
- File and DB2 processing
- TSO interface
- Exercises
- There are four machine exercises.
- Notes
- A one-day version of this course focusing on XPEDITER without the CICS-provided tools is available.