Addition of Programs to Debug Mode

A program must be added to debug mode before it can be debugged. OPM programs, ILE programs, and ILE service programs can be in debug mode at the same time. As many as 20 OPM programs can be in debug mode at one time in the OPM debug environment. The number of ILE programs, service programs and OPM programs in the ILE debug environment that can be in debug mode at one time is not limited. However, the maximum amount of debug data that is supported at one time is 16MB per module.

You must have *CHANGE authority to a program or service program to add it to debug mode. A program or service program can be added to debug mode when it is stopped on the call stack.

ILE programs and service programs are accessed by the source debugger one module at a time. When you are debugging an ILE program or service program, you may need to debug a module in another program or service program. That second program or service program must be added to debug mode before the module in the second program can be debugged.

When debug mode ends, all programs are removed from debug mode.