Course Description

CICS Program Debugging with XPEDITER

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Benefits

Students will learn to test/debug CICS programming problems and abends using the XPEDITER product. Greater productivity and accuracy result from fully understanding the debugging process.

Audience

CICS programmers who will use the XPEDITER tool to debug programs.

Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with CICS programming.

Recommended Materials

XPEDITER/CICS Reference Manual 

This course is not available for licensing nor for RCT.

• XPED transaction
• XPSP transaction
• XPRT transaction
• NEWC transaction
• Unconditional breakpoints
• Conditional breakpoints
• Single step testing
• Resume options
• Abend handling
• TRACE summary
• TRAP summary
• Viewing and modifying storage
• Storage violation protection
• Related CICS tools
• File and DB2 processing
• TSO interface

Exercises

There are four machine exercises.

Note

This course covers Xpediter Version 6.5.