4th June 2007
IET is delighted to announce a partnership with Meisner IT to develop, distribute and support xTrace.
xTrace is an alternative diagram tracing tool for CA Gen generated applications on the z/OS (MVS) platform. The combination of an intuitive GUI interface, powerful breakpoint definition, call stack overview, performance analysis and low execution overhead means that xTrace greatly speeds up the testing and debugging of z/OS applications.
xTrace allows developers to trace native batch and CICS application code (with IMS support planned) without needing to generate for TSO or the workstation. Instead of wasting time poring over code or manually editing COBOL to add DISPLAY statements, developers can immediately trace through the code to locate problems.
To help with tracing large or complex applications, the developer can set breakpoints based on action diagrams, statement numbers or even specific data values. Rather than having to turn off trace for every intermediate action block, the developer simply sets the breakpoints and executes to the next breakpoint.
xTrace brings to the z/OS platform similar functionality to the new Gen r7.6 Diagram Trace Utility that is available for non-mainframe platforms, but with even more flexible and powerful breakpoint technology and multi-user capability.
In addition, the 'call stack' feature allows you to view and save the complete call stack without needing to trace through each action block.
xTrace has successfully completed extensive beta testing and is now generally available from IET.
For more details, visit www.iet.co.uk/xtrace and see how debugging z/OS applications can be accelerated by up to 400%!