Enabling communication with Debug Manager

Debug Manager (DBGMGR) provides communication-related services to z/OS® Debugger and the remote Eclipse client.

To use Debug Manager, apart from the host debugger, you also need to install the following components or products:
  • IBM® z/OS Explorer host.
  • An Eclipse client of the following products:
    • IBM Debug for z/OS
    • IBM Developer for z/OS

Specifically, if the DBMDT TEST runtime parameters are used, Debug Manager is used with z/OS Explorer’s Remote System Explorer daemon (RSED) to allow z/OS Debugger to resolve the client’s workstation address.

This chapter describes how to set up the Debug Manager’s started task, encryption, and security definitions.

To learn more about Debug Manager, see Understanding Debug Manager. For the differences between using Debug Manager and Debug Daemon port 8001, see TCP/IP ports.