CICS Program Debugging with Xpediter

Course Number:  695-JK
Recommended Duration:  1 or 2 days

Intended Audience
CICS programmers who will use the XPEDITER tool to debug programs

Objectives
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.

CICS XPEDITER Version 7 Course is suitable for XPEDITER version 5 and 6 also.

Prerequisites
The student entering this course should have 6 months recent experience programming in CICS or have completed the "CICS Command Level Coding" course within the last 12 months.

Topics

• 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