Paul, We use Xpediter, but have experienced something similar though not to the extreme you describe. One or two executable statements here and there may be unavailable, but not whole paragraphs of code.
Compuware has similar caveats about optimization. Our programmers have either learned to live with it or have learned to stop complaining about it. Then again, maybe they don't have a problem very often. We have so far been able to avoid having to compile NOOPT to allow a programmer to debug code (and most programmers agree they don't want to debug a "different" program than the one that produced the error), but if I were in your place, I might want to run some parallel tests to see if Intertest is truly bug-free. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Peplinski Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:27 AM <snip> When single-stepping the program flow may start out as expected but eventually it starts jumping only to paragraph labels (top-down as they are coded in the source not where a GOTO or PERFORM should take them). Executable statements are not listed in the flow. The documentation lists caveats about optimized programs but this is entirely new behavior. I am pretty much at a standstill with both vendors. Maybe early testing should use NOOPT but in our environment programs may only be compiled once thru the unit, q/a, prod promote. We do not want to convert programs to NOOPT, nor do I want to add the burden of making users add a final compile with OPT. This additional compile could also invalidate all of their prior test results (remotely possible anyway). Has anyone here experienced this - or better yet - have a similar environment that does not have this "feature"? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
