That would be a failure of your development lifecycle process. Anything running in production MUST have compile listings available of the exact version running in production, and it doesn't hurt to retain the binder listing too. If you are still running an "older version" in production and you also have a newer version in production at the same time without retaining the older version listing somewhere, that's a process failure.
As for debugging production COBOL code, there are hurdles there too even if your listing is available. In my experience, the compiler option INLINE (default for higher levels of OPTIMIZE) absolutely prevents interactively stopping in any inlined paragraph. At least not using the CA Intertest debugger, which is all we have available to us at my employer's site, so I don’t know what the IBM debugger is capable of. I have found that using compiler option TEST(SOURCE) in production compiles subtracts very little from optimization and greatly aids debugging of production code (except for INLINE's - nothing helps that except re-compiling in test with NOINLINE and hoping the bug doesn't disappear with the test version). Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, April 7, 2023 2:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LE runtime Yes, it will. And if you are debugging an abend that occurred with an older version of the program, the listing is no longer available in the program object. -- Tom Marchant On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 18:33:18 +0000, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: >Won't that replace the NOLOAD segments with the new ones? > > >-- >Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >________________________________________ >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on >behalf of Tom Marchant [0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] >Sent: Friday, April 7, 2023 2:31 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: LE runtime > >Until the program is recompiled and relinked. > >-- >Tom Marchant > >On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 10:48:04 -0700, Tom Ross <tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com> >wrote: > >>With the >>NOLOAD class program segmenets in new COBOL the debugging data is >>always available, always in sync -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
