Xpediter/TSO

Summary:
This course covers how to use Xpediter to debug programs in TSO. The student will use Xpediter to follow the logic of a program, look at the contents of a field and watch how it changes as the program executes, and change a field's contents to see the effect.

Duration:
1 Day/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is designed for Cobol programmers who have encountered problems discovering the cause of an abend, a loop or incorrect program output.

Topics:

• General overview of Xpediter
• Creating the test environment
• Allocating libraries
• Creating FLISTs
• Compiling with Xpediter
• Debugging programs
• Setting break points
• Conditional break points
• Accessing and modifying data
• Accessing multiple occurrences of table entries
• Controlling execution, intercepting abends
• I/O allocations
• Debugging subprograms

Prerequisites:
The student should have knowledge of Cobol or an Assembler language and TSO/ISPF.