Restoring manually

Automatic restoring is not supported in the following environments:

  • Debugging in CICS® without logging-on
  • Debugging Db2® stored procedures

You can save and restore breakpoints, monitor, and LDD specifications by doing the following steps:

  1. Pre-allocate a sequential data set for saving and restoring of settings.
  2. Pre-allocate a PDSE or PDS for saving and restoring breakpoints and monitor specifications.
  3. Start z/OS® Debugger.
  4. To enable automatic saving of settings, use the following command where mysetdsn is the name of the data set that you allocated in step 1: 
    SET SAVE SETTINGS AUTO FILE mysetdsn;
  5. To enable automatic saving of breakpoints and LDD specifications or monitor and LDD specifications, use the following commands, where mybpdsn is the name of the data set that you allocated in step 2: 
    SET SAVE BPS AUTO FILE mybpdsn;
SET SAVE MONITORS AUTO;
  6. Shutdown z/OS Debugger.

The next time you start z/OS Debugger in one of these environments, you must use the following commands, in the sequence shown, at the beginning of your z/OS Debugger session.

SET SAVE SETTINGS AUTO FILE mysetdsn;
RESTORE SETTINGS;
SET SAVE BPS AUTO FILE mybpdsn;
RESTORE BPS MONITORS;

You can put these commands into a user preferences file.