breakpoint before every CALL

jerryte · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:22 pm

How do I set a breakpoint before every CALL statement in COBOL? Also which manual provides information about this? Thanks

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:13 am

What if you set the Breakpoint to the first line of executable code in the Called sub-program?

Is it the Caller you're concerned with or the Called sub-program?

jerryte · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:35 am

This still requires me to manually set the breakpoints one at a time. I am debugging a mainline program that calls a lot of subroutines. I want to execute the subroutine and then check the results immediately afterwards. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:49 am

xpeditor? intertest? debug tool?

Robert Sample · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:20 am

Xpediter allows BEFORE ALL CALL but since you didn't tell us which product you are using, I'm not sure if that is relevant.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:20 am

For xpeditor,
i wrote a rexx to scan thru a compiler listing,
that way I had the correct pg/ln
for my scripts containing
BEFORE and AFTER BREAK points.

jerryte · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:11 pm

We have Xpediter/TSO 9.0

I might try the rexx idea and generate a script

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:22 pm

another way:
when in source mode,
x all, find all "call",
A newline
A newline
A newline
A newline

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:52 pm

B newline,
since they are for BEFORE breaks.

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

Robert: