Debugging your application to facilitate problem determination

The CICS® execution diagnostic facility (EDF) helps you when using the EXEC CICS interface to step through the EXEC CICS commands of an application program.

Use EDF to debug your adapters - adapters are CICS applications that use the CICS BTS API.

The sample compile PROC has the NOEDF option specified.

As the adapters do not run attached to a terminal, the CEDX transaction must be used specifying the transaction id of the navigator or server adapter that you want to debug.

See the CICS Application Programming Guide. In addition, it can be useful to use a 3rd party debug product that can provide a COBOL verb-at-a-time capability.