Debugging multilanguage applications

To support multiple high-level programming languages (HLL), z/OS® Debugger adapts its commands to the HLLs, provides interpretive subsets of commands from the various HLLs, and maps common attributes of data types across the languages. It evaluates HLL expressions and handles constants and variables.

The topics below describe how z/OS Debugger makes it possible for you to debug programs consisting of different languages, structures, conventions, variables, and methods of evaluating expressions.

A general rule to remember is that z/OS Debugger tries to let the language itself guide how z/OS Debugger works with it.

Refer to the following topics for more information related to the material discussed in this topic.

• Related tasks
• Qualifying variables and changing the point of view
• Debugging multilanguage applications
• Handling conditions and exceptions in z/OS Debugger

• Related references
• z/OS Debugger evaluation of HLL expressions
• z/OS Debugger interpretation of HLL variables and constants
• z/OS Debugger commands that resemble HLL commands
• Coexistence with other debuggers
• Coexistence with unsupported HLL modules