My take is that if your shop restricts IPCS, and doesn't provide a real debugger, you need to be looking for a better job. In what other profession would anyone be expected to work without the tools they need?
sas On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:27 PM Farley, Peter x23353 < [email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > > That's all well and good for an ISV such as yourself who has the freedom > to use whatever debugging tools you choose to use, but what are programmers > in non-ISV shops without application programmer access to IPCS supposed to > do? > > z/XDC is a wonderful interactive debugging tool with which I am quite > familiar, but it's not so helpful for ordinary HLL interactive debugging > (other than Colesoft's very fine c/XDC, to which I do not have access) > except in very complex debugging tasks not covered by ISV interactive > products. > > I haven't touched TSO TEST in umpty-ump decades and probably wouldn't use > it even if offered the opportunity. In my experience it was a real bear to > use, especially compared to z/XDC today. FWIW, I had to debug a quite > complex assembler / BTAM / multitasking application running under the MVS > of the day using only TSO TEST at a client site in another country. Got > the job done, but definitely not an experience I ever wish to repeat. > > Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
