Preparing a CICS program

To prepare a CICS® program for debugging, you must do the following tasks:

1. Complete the program preparation tasks for COBOL, PL/I, C, C++, assembler, or LangX COBOL, as described in the following sections:
   • Choosing TEST or NOTEST compiler suboptions for COBOL programs
   • Choosing TEST or NOTEST compiler suboptions for PL/I programs
   • Choosing TEST or DEBUG compiler suboptions for C programs
   • Choosing TEST or DEBUG compiler suboptions for C++ programs
   • Preparing an assembler program
   • Preparing a LangX COBOL program
2. Determine if your site uses CADP or DTCN debugging profiles and verify that your system has been configured to use the chosen debugging profile.
3. Determine if you need to link edit EQADCCXT into your program by reviewing the instructions in Link-editing EQADCCXT into your program.
4. Do one of the following tasks:
   • If your site is using DTCN debugging profiles, create and store a DTCN debugging profile. Instructions for creating a DTCN debugging profile are in Creating and storing a DTCN profile.
   • If you are using CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® Version 2 Release 3 or later and your site uses CADP to manage debugging profiles, create and store a CADP debugging profile. See Creating and storing debugging profiles with CADP for more information about using CADP.