Debugging in Menu Mode › Activity Screens › Set Screen

Set Screen

Purpose

You can use the Set screen to modify selected areas of storage and session attributes. The Set screen can be used during setup and at runtime.

The specification area of the Set screen looks like:

SET: M (M-MEMORY/C-CHARACTER/X-HEX/B-BOTH)
MEMORY ONLY:
       BEGIN SET MEMORY AT:

       EQUALS......:

       RESET.......: N (Y-YES/N-NO)

Field Options

These are the field options for this area:

SET: M (M-MEMORY/C-CHARACTER/X-HEX/B-BOTH)

• M (the default) requests modification of the areaof memory specified in the Memory Only section of the screen
• The other three options pertain to the setting of session attributes:
  • C requests a display in character format
  • X requests a display in hexadecimal format
  • B requests a display in both character and hexadecimal format

BEGIN SET MEMORY AT:

Specifies the beginning location of the entity to be modified. The beginning location can be a debug expression that resolves to an address for which you have update security. A beginning location value is required when you are updating memory.

If the debug expression is a symbol with data characteristics, the length of the symbol is used in the set. Otherwise, the data characteristics of the source field are used in the set.

Remember: The debugger does not allow a set across resource boundaries.

EQUALS......:

Indicates the new value that will be assigned to the entity. You can supply an explicit value or a data field name, as in these examples:

h'03'
f'9956'
x'f0c4'
c'edit'
p'1234'
'customer-name-0145'

The EQUALS field is required when you are updating memory.

RESET.......: N (Y-YES/N-NO)

Indicates the disposition of the original storage value:

• Y requests that the named storage be reset to its original value at the end of the debugging session; this option is not supported for release 10.2 of the debugger
• N (the default) requests that the named storage not be reset to its original value at the end of the debugging session

This option does not affect storage in the debugged program itself since a special copy of the program is loaded for the debugging session.