I was told there is no performance impact of compiling with test. The compile creates a //SYSDEBUG file that is used by the debugger. The load module has an entry in it that points to the SYSDEBUG file.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Leahy Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM Debug Tool On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Paul Peplinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking at converting to IBM Debug Tool V8.1 (Ent Cobol 3.4, soon > to be 4.1). My first impression is that Debug Tool puts debug control > into the load module (or points to it in the case of an external > symbol dictionary). That seems incompatible with our development > strategy where a program is compiled once and then promoted through > the hierarchy. My concern is promoting bloated and unoptimized > modules into production or needing to share symbol files across > environments (i.e. test and QA) especially when those programs might > have different working storage. > > Does this product dictate compiling at each stage with a final NOTEST > compile going into production? > > Paul P We're at version 5.1 of DT, and our local standard is to limit DT to the programmers' unit test environment. When a programmer requests a TEST compile, the linkage editor step inserts an IDENTIFY card that marks the load module as having been compiled with TEST on. Our in house promotion process will not promote a load module that has this IDENTIFY card in it. This forces a NOTEST recompile at the system test level, and beyond that no more recompiles are needed. I understand that more recent versions of Debug Tool can be set up to produce a relatively lean load module without compromising debugging functionality. But we are not there yet so I have no experience to offer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
