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Overview

This chapter discusses online debugger usage with Assembler, COBOL, and PL/I programs. To effectively use the debugger with these languages, specific compiler options must be utilized to produce listings to obtain required information. The compiler options for each programming language are shown in the next topic.

To use the debugger with COBOL or PL/I programs, some preliminary computations must be done to calculate the exact location of variable storage fields or object code to set breakpoints. This chapter contains a discussion of these calculations and sample debugger sessions for both languages.