Cobol Application Debugging Under MVS

This book presents the tools and techniques that both OS/VS COBOL programmers and COBOL II programmers need to dumpread, debug and update versions of COBOL. It includes a discussion of compiler options useful in debugging; analysis of completion codes and MVS operating system concepts; detailed examples of symbolic COBOL dumps; MVS hexadecimal storage dumps and Abend-AID reports; descriptions and instructions for three on-line interactive debugging products: TESTCOB, COBTEST AND XPEDITER/TSO, guidelines for designing, testing and debugging COBOL programmes and offers over 15 complete programmes written in OS/VS COBOL and COBOL II used in explicit examples of debugging and dump-solving.