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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories LE
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 3, 2021

Print LE conforming assembler Stack frame storage in CEEDUMP

First I am not sure why LE Stack frame storage is considered language dependent and requires the language to format and print for CEEDUMP. Maybe it is assumed that there will be symbolic data available to match the fields with labels. The LE entry code contains the LE Stack frame size and register 13 contains the starting address. It may be in different locations depending on whether it is Standard, FASTLINK, XPLINK, or C/370.

The LE Stack frame storage for an LE conforming assembler program does not get printed in the CEEDUMP report. And that is the issue in a nutshell. This has been a deficiency since the creation of LE, and apparently nobody has yet taken issue with it. Hard to believe.

Nobody has taken responsibility to print the LE Stack frame storage for LE conforming assembler programs in the CEEDUMP Traceback list. Makes resolving an ABEND very difficult if you can not see valuable information. The CEEDUMP completes, LE terminates freeing up all of the LE Heap storage and LE Stack frame storage. So, you don’t even get the opportunity to see it in the SYSUDUMP report. For most of these years I have had access to a real time debugging tool to resolve the issues during the development phase and did not have to depend on batch dumps. Now, I have to depend on the batch dumps and they do not provide the necessary data to shed light on many of the issues. So, lots of additional code has been created to work around the issue that the CEEDUMP does not handle LE conforming assembler program LE Stack frame storage. Please accept this RFE and resolve this issue before the end of my career.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Dec 27, 2022
    This item is a valid requirement but unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into the product plan. If this requirement is high value, please re-open it, or open a new requirement.