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Enterprise PL/I Debugging and Maintenance - Course Objectives

On successful completion of this course, the student, with the aid of the appropriate reference materials, should be able to:

  1. Use the compile and run-time facilities of PL/I to determine the cause of a "program bug"
  2. Describe the outputs of the IBM Enterprise PL/I compiler, and use these outputs effectively in problem determination
  3. Understand the structure of the Pl/I run time environment, and be able to find data elements in a PLIDUMP output listing
  4. Approach debugging in an orderly, efficient fashion
  5. Understand how PL/I calls, and passes parameters to subroutines
  6. Use the Binder map to determine in which CSECT an address is located.

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