Barry, your list of debugging products is incomplete without adding the most modern debugger for z/OS which is our Trap Diagnostic Facility (TDF) product. It fully supports and exploits 64-bit environments and even provides non-interactive debugging.
Since you were kind enough to give me that tape drive a few years back, I'd love to return a favor and help you out anyway I can. Check our web page for more information on TDF. Chuck Arney Arney Computer Systems Web: http://zosdebug.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/arneycomputer -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Merrill Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 6:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging? To my surprise even in 2014 the TSO TEST command does not support 64-bit debugging! For example, there is no way to display the contents of a 64 bit register. TSO TEST only shows the rightmost 32 bits. Tactically, in the short term there are ways around this by storing the 64 bit registers into memory for viewing or forcing dumps. But strategically as we move on further into the 21st Century this may become this may become a significant problem for supporting assembler modules in MXG as more use of 64-bit environment is required. Some modern alternatives to TSO TEST (all at extra cost) are: . HLASM Tookit from IBM . Xpediter/TSO from Compuware . z/XDC from Colesoft Software Did IBM really drop the ball on this by stabilizing the TSO commands at what is becoming an increasingly ancient level (non-64-bit)? Or have we missed something? Merrilly yours, Barry Merrill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
