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Status Under Review
Workspace Natural for z/OS
Categories Utilities
Created by Philippe Van Coppenolle
Created on Sep 1, 2025

Debug: allow display of structures

When you want to display the content of a structure, you get a message
Variables of this type may be neither displayed nor modified.

Structures should at least be considered equal to (Ax) or (Bx), so that it should be possible to display their whole content in EBCDIC (or ASCII) or hexadecimal. Without need to be able to update.

If someone wants to do so at the present, he/she must redefine the structure as (Ax) or (Bx), and use the redefinition.

The ideal (and complete) solution would be that the debugger walks through the symbol-tree under this structure, and displays each field separately, as if the user would have given each field in a "DIsplay VAriable".

Use Case debugging