Testing edit macros

These topics describe general-use programming interfaces and associated guidance information. They also tell you how to include statements in your edit macros to capture and handle error conditions.

Handling errors
Using CLIST WRITE statements and REXX SAY statements
Using CLIST CONTROL and REXX TRACE statements
Experimenting with macro commands
Debugging edit macros with ISREMSPY

Using the information in other topics, you should be able to write and run an edit macro that uses CLIST or REXX logic and processes simple edit commands. However, even an experienced edit macro writer occasionally includes a bug that causes a macro to end abnormally (ABEND), or writes a macro that does not work as expected. When this occurs, you must debug your macro, just as you would debug any other kind of program you write.