CICS Program Debugging with Abend-Aid

Course Number:  696-JK
Recommended Duration:  1 day

Intended Audience
COBOL programmers who will use Abend-Aid tools to debug CICS programs.

Objectives
Students will learn to test/debug COBOL programming problems and abends using the Abend-Aid products.  Greater productivity and accuracy result from fully understanding the debugging process.

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

• Using AADF

• TSO connection

• Abend-Aid dump reading concepts

• Finding abending statements

• Obtaining data addresses 

• Locating fields in WORKING-STORAGE SECTION 

• Finding data in LINKAGE SECTION

• Solving abends and problems