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PT25017
Summary
The student will learn to approach debugging systematically, using the appropriate features of the PL/I language to facilitate debugging. In addition, he or she will learn to interpret the various forms of debugging output from PL/I, including CEEDUMPs.
Prerequisites
The student should have experience coding PL/I programs, be comfortable with the text editor you use, and be able to code JCL to run simple batch jobs.
Duration
2 Days/Lecture & Lab
Audience
This course is designed for PL/I programmers who need to debug PL/I programs, understand the PL/I run-time environment, or tune PL/I programs for performance.
Topics
- Introduction To PL/I Debugging
- Language Environment and PL/I
- How does PL/I store variables
- Where Does PL/I store variables
- The Enterprise PL/I Compiler
- Computer Exercise: PONION, continued
- Subroutines, Arguments, and Parameters
- Common PL/I programming errors