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When to Use Breakpoints

You can set breakpoints at any time—before you execute the program and when the program is stopped. Although where you decide to set breakpoints depends on the specifics of your program, you might want to set breakpoints in the following places:

• At the beginning of the Procedure Division, so when the program executes you can set additional breakpoints
• At paragraph names, so you can examine the contents of variables at the start of sections
• Before a call, so you can dynamically control the program path
• At each location named in an EXEC CICS HANDLE CONDITION, so you can verify error handling