Recommended Duration:  2 Days

Benefits:  The student will learn to approach debugging systematically, using the appropriate features of the PL/I language to facilitate debugging. In addition, he or she will learn to interpret the various forms of debugging output from PL/I, including CEEDUMPs.

Audience:  PL/I programmers who need to debug PL/I programs, understand the PL/I run-time environment, or tune PL/I programs for performance.

Prerequisites:  The student should have experience coding PL/I programs, be comfortable with the text editor you use, and be able to code JCL to run simple batch jobs.

Related IBM Materials:  PL/I Language Reference for the compiler used, PL/I Programming Guide for the compiler used.