XPEDITER/TSO

Duration:   1 to 2 days

Participants:   Application developers, mainframe support staff, and systems programmers.

Objectives:   Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to: -  Setup and use XPEDITER/TSO. -  Define and create DDIO files and test profiles. -  Compile and link programs under XPEDITER/TSO. -  Create and maintain file allocation lists, user profiles, and test scripts. -  Setup a basic test session. -  Effectively use the primary and line commands to debug programs, including setting breakpoints, examining and modifying data, counting execution of lines, altering execution logic, etc. -  Access the log and script files.

Overview:   -  XPEDITER is a debugging and abend intercept tool that runs interactively in full screen mode as well as in a batch environment. You will learn to interactively allocate files, maintain multiple test profiles, interrupt and restart execution at any point, trace logic flow, bypass undesired program code, and monitor, display and modify program variable contents. You will be able to temporarily insert XPEDITER/TSO debugging statements, and view the log that XPEDITER maintains of all user activity during test sessions. -  This course uses programs with a variety of typical abend and logic errors to illustrate each command. Students debug a variety of actual abends and program failures in this extensively hands-on course. This course is a prerequisite to our other XPEDITER courses, such as XPEDITER/CICS and XPEDITER/DB2. -  Site must have TSO logons with XPEDITER Online installed. Each student needs a PC or terminal with mainframe access.

Prerequisites:   Knowledge of COBOL programming.

Format:   Lecture and extensive hands-on workshops.

Topic Outline:   -  Overview         Primary option menu -  Defaults (Option Ø)         Defaults primary menu         Terminal characteristics         PF key definitions         User profiles         ISPF color defaults         Source color defaults         Other defaults -  Utilities (Option 5)         Utilities primary menu         Region size message         List allocates screen         DDIO file facility              DDIO create/format facility              DDIO create/format setup              DDIO options facility screen -  Prepare (Option 1)         Program preparation menu         Convert compile JCL              Compile JCL before conversion              Compile JCL after conversion         Compile facility              General settings              DB2 precompile setup              CICS translation setup              Compile setup              Linkedit setup         Bind facility              DBRM libraries screen         Edit allocation list -  TSO (Option 2)         Standard test screen         Session Setup screen              Environments menu screen              Load module library override screen              DDIO files override screen              Test script library override screen              Log dataset override screen              Log dataset disposition screen              DSN load library override screen         Allocate test session files              Copy file allocation or JCL              Allocate from JCL              Select DD name results              Save life allocation list              Space and catalog allocation              DCB parameter allocation              File parameters menu              Dataset allocation parms              Dataset DCB parameters              Sysout parameters -  Entering a Debugging Session         Entering a test session         After a test has completed         Returning from a test session              Log dataset browse screen              Log dataset disposition screen              Test script dataset edit screen              Script dataset disposition screen -  Break Point and Logic Commands         BEFORE         AFTER         WHEN         COUNT         GO         SKIP         TRACE         RETEST -  Inserting Instructions         INSERT         PAUSE         GOTO >-  Program Variable Commands         Monitoring and altering data         SET KEEP         KEEP         KEEPE         KEEPH         PEEK         PEEKE         PEEKH         MOVE -  UTILITY Commands         HELP         INCLUDE         LOG         SET         SHOW         TSO -  Scripts         Designing and writing scripts         Typical script uses -  Summary         Steps to solve an abend or program failure         Handling different types of abends         Use to log to remember what you did

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