Michael Bradley wrote:
This note is cross-posted to IBM-MAIN & TSO-REXX
Does anyone find the TSO Session Manager of use when tracing execs executed
in ISPF? (Or anything else?)
I test almost all my code in TSOBATCH using trace, and I feel productive
doing this; I can scroll backwards and forwards. But I have an associate
who develops a lot of dialogs, and is always viewing the output in a
non-scrollable uni-directional manner. Session Manager has always appealed
to me as a solution for this kind of behavior, but I haven't seen it for
maybe 25 years. It used to be a chargeable product, but I don't know what
its status is today. I see mention of it in IBM pubs as considerations in
certain situations, or how to test for its availability, etc.
I'd be interested in learning of anyone using Session Manager in this way,
or any tips on viewing Trace output when the exec is inovked interactively.
Michael
Michael,
I didn't see anyone respond, so I'll give it a try.
I never use Session Manager, probably because I didn't
"grow up" with it. But it's there, seems to be included
for no extra charge with ISPF. Under option 0 (Settings),
there is an Option you can check for Session Manager mode.
To use trace interactively, I normally include a
trace ?c
in my code; as it runs, rexx pauses after each statement
is evaluated and if I just press <Enter> runs the current
statement and continues to the next; if I key in an = and
then press <Enter>, the current statement is reevaluated;
if I key in anything else, it is assumed to be a REXX
statement that will be evaluated and run before the current
statement.
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