Creating a debugging profile with the 3270 interface
You can create debugging profiles in these ways:
- You can create a completely new profile by entering all the information
needed to define the profile
- You can base the new profile on an existing profile
Creating a new profile
Starting with the "List Debugging Profiles" screen, follow these
steps:
- To create a profile for a compiled language program
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- Press PF5. CICS displays the "Create Compiled Debugging Profile" screen.
- Complete the fields that you need to specify your profile.
- Press ENTER. CICS checks that you have entered valid data.
- If you have specified valid data, the profile is saved
- If your data contains an error, CICS displays a message. Re-enter the
data, and press ENTER again.
- Press PF12 to return to the "List Debugging Profiles" screen.
- To create a profile for a Java program
-
- Press PF6. CICS displays the "Create Java Debugging Profile" screen.
- Complete the fields that you need to specify your profile. You may need
to use PF7 and PF8 to scroll the display.
- Press ENTER. CICS checks that you have entered valid data.
- If you have specified valid data, the profile is saved
- If your data contains an error, CICS displays a message. Re-enter the
data, and press ENTER again.
- Press PF12 to return to the "List Debugging Profiles" screen.
Basing a new profile on an existing profile
You can create a new debugging profile using an existing profile as a starting
point. The steps you take depend upon whether the original profile is owned
by you or another user:
- If you own the profile
- Follow the steps described in Changing a debugging profile with the 3270 interface. Before you save
the profile, give it a new name.
- If another user owns the profile
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- Copy the profile, following the steps described in Copying debugging profiles with the 3270 interface
- Make any changes to the profile by following the steps described in Changing a debugging profile with the 3270 interface
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