Migrating a debug profiles VSAM file from an earlier release

z/OS® Debugger 15.0 increases the record size of the DTCN profile records and adds some new fields.

If you are migrating from an earlier release of Debug Tool or z/OS Debugger, and you use an EQADPFMB VSAM file to store your profiles, you need to create a new file using the JCL sample in member EQAWCRVS in the hlq.SEQASAMP data set.

If you want to upgrade the records from an old DTCN VSAM file to the new record format, see the JCL sample in member EQADPCNV in the hlq.SEQASAMP data set.

Note: An earlier version of the EQADPCNV utility converted the DTCN VSAM file from its Debug Tool 11.1 record size (1304 bytes) and record format to the record size (2000 bytes) and record format required by Debug Tool 12.0 and later. The utility still supports this upgrade path.

If you want to upgrade from Debug Tool 11.1 or earlier to z/OS Debugger 15.0 or later, you need to first convert the file to a Debug Tool 12.0 file, and then convert the new file to a z/OS Debugger 15.0 file. Converting directly from the Debug Tool 11.1 format to the z/OS Debugger 15.0 format is not supported.