CICS® supports the use of workstation-based and host-based debuggers for isolating and fixing bugs, and for testing applications. This topic provides an overview of the high-level tasks you must perform before you can use a debugger with CICS applications, and tells you where to find more information:
For more information, see Debugging CICS applications from a workstation.
CICS supports Debug Tool for host-based debugging. For more information, see Using Debug Tool with CICS applications.
Debugging profiles let you do all this -- a debugging profile specifies a set of application programs which are to be debugged together. When you make a profile active, the programs it defines run under the control of the debugger, using a debugging session that you have specified. When you make the profile inactive, the programs run normally again, as do programs that are not referred to in debugging profiles. Debugging profiles also let you define the characteristics of the debugging session that you will use to debug a particular program.
For more information, see Debugging profiles.
For more information, see the CICS System Definition Guide.