Preparing to debug applications with Debug Tool

Before you can debug CICS® applications using Debug Tool, your system programmer must prepare your CICS region for debugging. See the CICS Application Programming Guide for more information. You must then complete the following tasks:

  1. Consider how you want to conduct your debug session, and compile your programs with the appropriate options. For more information, see Debug Tool for z/OS User’s Guide.
  2. Create one or more debugging profiles. A debugging profile specifies which programs will run under the debugger's control.
  3. Activate the debugging profiles that define the program instances that you want to debug. When you activate the profiles, you must specify the display device with which you will interact with the debugger.

When you have completed all these steps, the programs that you have selected at step 3 will run under the control of Debug Tool.

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