Knowing object code doesn't give you the names and comments for the instruction you're looking at.
The last I looked, TEST didn't have an XMEM mode. Clunky support is better than none. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Joseph Reichman <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2025 10:19 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Assembler debugger External Message: Use Caution For assembler I still use TEST mostly The fact that source doesn’t exist not that big of a deal if you know assembler you know object code I use 2 tso sessions 1 for source 1 for test I have had issues debugging with xdc in xmem state Though in problem state there doesn’t seem to be any issues Thanks > On Nov 9, 2025, at 10:14 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know what's out there, but certainly the IBM Debug Facility and the > debug tool in the HLASM Toolkit are more awkward. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > Steff Gladstone <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2025 6:12 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Assembler debugger > > > External Message: Use Caution > > > We are looking into acquiring an assembler debugging tool. Nearly two > decades ago I used the z/XDC tool at an earlier employer. Is this tool > still considered top-of-the-line? Are there other tools considered more > powerful or friendly? > > Thanks, > Steff Gladstone > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
