I don’t have the $10,000 or so to purchase it 
If it was a reasonable  price for Zpdt user I would consider it 

I need the program in storage area that TESTAUTH will let me set a breakpoint 

I think my method should work 

Will try it later 

> On Sep 13, 2023, at 3:40 PM, Tom Marchant 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> only TESTAUTH let’s you debug code with PSW bit 15 being 0
> 
> Obviously you haven't tried z/XDC.
> 
>> All I want is to debug a program that was preloaded under a different TCB
> 
> Have you considered using CSVDYLPA to load in into dynamic LPA? Probably 
> overkill for your purposes, but you can do it so that it will stay after task 
> termination.
> 
> -- 
> Tom Marchant
> 
>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 15:10:19 -0400, Joseph Reichman <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> First off tried it only TESTAUTH let’s you debug code with PSW bit 15 being 0
>> 
>> Not really sure what not being a good idea that is usually reserved for 
>> moving using non standard code into production as other problems will pop up 
>> 
>> All I want is to debug a program that was preloaded under a different TCB 
>> after I get the kinks out I’ll have LOADTOGLOBAL=YES
>> 
>>>> On Sep 13, 2023, at 3:04 PM, Farley, Peter 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I agree with other posters that your suggested solution is not a good idea.
>>> 
>>> If you have the HLASM Toolkit product licensed on your system you can use 
>>> the ASMIDF debugger to remotely debug batch jobs from a VTAM session, but 
>>> using ASMIDF requires that pre-established VTAM APPL’s and LU’s are defined 
>>> by your VTAM/network team.
>>> 
>>> I have used it to debug assembler code and it is a pretty reasonable 
>>> debugging tool (not as good as z/XDC, but reasonable nonetheless, and IMHO 
>>> better than TSO TEST) IFF you can get your network team to set up the VTAM 
>>> APPL’s and LU’s for you.  It’s all documented in the install/reference 
>>> manual for the HLASM Toolkit.
>>> 
>>> IIRC, ASMIDF even has the ability to debug authorized code, but check the 
>>> manual to be sure.
> 
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