Debugging applications

You can debug CICS® applications using utilities that are supplied with CICS, or other tools available from IBM®. The debug tools supplied with CICS include a workstation-based debugging tool, and the execution diagnostic facility (EDF).

You use these tools to step through the code and check the syntax of application programming and system programming commands. Additional IBM tools for debug include IBM Developer for Z and the IBM Debug Tool.

You can also collect transaction dumps and perform tracing for debug purposes. For more information, see CICS transaction dump and Trace.