Entering multiline commands in full-screen

If you need to use more than one line to enter a command, you can do one of the following actions:

Enter a continuation character when you reach the end of the command line.
Enter the POPUP command before you enter the command.

In either case, z/OS® Debugger displays the Command pop-up window.

When you enter a command in interactive mode, the continuation character must be the last non-blank character in the command line. In the following example, the continuation character is the single-byte character set (SBCS) hyphen (-):

LIST (" this is a very very very vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv –
very long string");

If you want to end a line with a character that z/OS Debugger might interpret as a continuation character, follow that character with another valid non-blank character. For example, in C and C++, if you want to enter i––, you could enter (i––) or i––;. When the current programming language setting is C and C++, you can use the backslash character (\).

When z/OS Debugger is awaiting the continuation of a command in full-screen mode, the Command pop-up window remains open and displays the message Current command is incomplete, enter more input below.