Training Videos

This video describes or touches upon the following:

• The types of ALC programs than can be debugged
• The productive gains from using z/XDC

• Learn Assembler faster
• Watch to see what machine instructions actually do
• Stop misunderstanding your program's logic

• Develop in a wide range of z/OS execution environments
• Task mode or SRB
• Authorized or nonauthorized
• Multitasking
• Multi-address space
• Subsystems
• Dataspaces
• PC routines
• Exits of all sorts

This video describes or touches upon the following:

• Debugging Batch Programs and System Tasks
• The JCL changes sometimes needed
• z/XDC Session Profile Library
• Built-in Session Profiles
• Connecting to a background debugging session
• Using large workstation displays (even PCOMM workstations)

This video describes or touches upon the following:

• Starting a debugging session in TSO...
  • For "normal" programs
  • For TSO Command Processors
• XDCCALL[A] / XDCCMD[A]
• z/XDC Startup Panel
• Startup z/XDC Command Script
• Quick Start
• AUTOMAP'ing
• Watch Windows
• z/XDC Command Scripts
• DSECT Maps
• SYM Data Maps
• Equates
• Loading RENT/REFR programs into key 8 Storage
• EQUATE, DMAP, USING, WHERE, FORMAT and READ Commands

This video describes or touches upon the following:

• Automapping
• ADATA mapped displays
• ADATA Formatting vs. z/XDC's Native Disassembler
• Error Level vs. Retry Level Environments and understanding the differences
• Branch Tracing
• Session Profiles
• Profile Menuing System
• Multiple Named Profiles
• Watch Windows
• Commands:
  • FORMAT
  • LIST AREGS
  • LIST BEA
  • LIST EPSWE
  • LIST FORMAT
  • LIST PSWE
  • LIST RWREGS
  • PROFILE
  • PROFILE SAVE
  • SET FORMAT
  • TRACE
  • TRACE BY
  • WHERE

This video describes the use of Point-and-Shoot commands within z/XDC's displays.

z/XDC's Shortcut commands are single-letter commands that can be entered at the left on most display lines.

This converted presentation is a guided walkthrough of the z/XDC built-in HELP system. It will help the viewer understand the structure of the built-in HELP, how to navigate the built-in HELP, and what kind of information is contained in the built-in HELP.

This video describes or touches upon the following:

• Building your program and modifying the JCL to work with c/XDC
• Building in XL/C, XL/C++
• Building in XL/Metal C
• Connecting with a debugging session in the batch
• Starting a debugging session in TSO

This video describes or touches upon the following:

• The general layout of c/XDC
• Basic preferences
• Personal Profiles and Factory Default Profiles
• Debugging Defaults: AUTOMAP and AUTOSTEP
• Function Keys

This video describes or touches upon the following:

• STEP Commands
• Breakpoints:
• Setting Breakpoints
• Removing Breakpoints
• Displaying Breakpoints
• ZAP Command
• Address Expressions
• SET QUALIFIER command
• SET FORMAT command

This video describes or touches upon the following:

• Recovery Routines
• HOOKs versus TRAPs
• Dynamic Hook Commands:
• HOOK
• K Shortcut Command
• LIST HOOKS
• HDEFERRED
• DELETE HOOKS
• OFF / O Shortcut Commands
• Static Hooks:
• CXDCHOOK

This video describes or touches upon the following:

• What are variables in c/XDC
• Inspecting variables
• Viewing variables
• Variable commands
• Settings for variables
• Specific variable types
• Stack Frames

This video describes settings that need to be made to ISPF and TSO in order to use Large Geometry.

This video describes how to save load modules into permanent libraries and then how to run those.

This video discusses starting up a z/XDC debugging Session within ISPF.

This video describes using traces and traps to control execution in z/XDC.