Rick said; > I can't help it; I've got to "butt in" here with one of my pet peeves. > We'va all used GTF and SLIP at one time or another to try and debug > system problems and, perhaps less often, application problems. I write > almost all my code in Assembler and the lack of debugging tools that I > can imbed into a product is one of my "pet peeves". GTF quite often uses > the MC instruction (like in GTRACE expansion) to "hook" into various > routines at selected points. Why, in the name of all that's holy, can't > application programmers, get access to the same kinds of interfaces?
Dude... check out the GTRACE macro, <http://preview.tinyurl.com/2wfyrk> GTRACE is the GTF interface and even though it is documented in the Auth guides, the MC interface does not require authorization AT ALL. The down side is that all other aspects of GTF require some local authority, to start GTF traces, and to get access to the trace dataset and/or IPCS to process the output. In a lot of places those are practically impossible for application people to get, but that's a site choice. If you had a gnarly problem you might be allowed access. But if you just want first class real time debugging and you don't have your own VM sandbox... Dave Cole's XDC is the only game in town. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
