Rational Developer for System z

Debugging COBOL and CICS programs on AIX

To debug COBOL and CICS® programs on AIX® using the Developer for System z® debug tools, you need to ensure that you have the latest version of COBOL for AIX and the distributed debugger (idebug) for AIX. You can obtain the latest versions and PTFs from the COBOL for AIX website: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/cobol/aix/support/.

To debug COBOL and CICS programs on AIX, you need to do the following tasks:

  1. In Developer for System z, open the Debug perspective and click listen button to begin listening on the AIX port. The default port is 8001.
  2. To debug a CICS program or transaction, you need to enable CICS for debugging and then connect to CICS and use the CDCN transaction to note which host and port should debug which transaction or program before you start the transaction or program to debug.
  3. On the AIX workstation, start the application using idebug and indicate which host and port to connect to for display.

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