Marcel askes:
>
> Is there anybody who has experience with a Cobol Debugger on a HP3000 running
> MPE/iX
> 4.0.
>
> If so which Debugger do you use and what are your experiences ?
>
> With regards,
>
>
> Marcel Lip
>
Cobol on the HP3000 has a very nice "debugger" built in.  I'm out of the
office, but I remember creating a separate debug Section and making the
SOURCE-COMPUTER HP3000 WITH DEBUGGING MODE  and then using a "D" in
column 7(?) to selectively execute statements when running with
;PARM=-1.  Also the debugging section could display the paragraph
name and line number (from the compile) along with how it got there:
Fall through vs GO TO vs PERFORMED.  Very helpful and can be enabled
and runtime.  Not sure what overhead is involved, but once you figure
out how to do this, anyone can get at least a trace without knowing
anything about XDB for SYSTEM DEBUG.
 
Just for the record, I use both XDB and System DEBUG.  Xdb it great
but you need source.  But most of the time, all you can count on is
system debug.   I learned how to use it mostly while working at
the HP Response Center.  I'm available for teaching classes/consulting.
I still have notes from a class I gave at City of Tempe.  (2 days of
XDB and system debug, 1 hour of COBOL's buildint stuff and they chucked
the notes from the first 2 days... my ego is still recovering.)
 
Rich
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