Debugging CICS programs

If you compile CICS® programs using the integrated translator, you can debug the programs at the original source level instead of debugging the expanded source that the separate CICS translator provides.

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If you use the separate CICS translator, first translate your CICS programs into COBOL. Then you can debug the resulting COBOL programs the same way you debug any other COBOL programs.

You can debug CICS programs by using IBM Debug for Linux on x86 that is shipped with COBOL for Linux®. Be sure to instruct the compiler to produce the symbolic information that the debugger uses.

Note: Effective 9 August 2024, IBM withdraws from marketing IBM CICS TX Standard (5900-ALU) and IBM CICS TX Advanced (5737-K69).