Xpediter

Xpediter is a commercially marketed by Compuware tool for interactive analysis, testing and debugging programs and applications on mainframes. In the operating systems MVS and VM / CMS can be written in assembler or COBOL programs interactively or in batch mode to test and debug. The work is possible according to the supplier under MVS TSO, SPF, VM / CMS, and in the IMS online message region and CICS applications. Also, stored procedures can be examined under DB2.

Program execution can be, according to data provider start at any point, interrupt, change or end. Appropriate modifications of the source and object program was not necessary. All field and register contents could be assigned and displayed in hexadecimal or formatted. It should be possible to undo all of the satisfaction of certain conditions on that false or incomplete program components, modules, databases and screen calls can be simulated. All instructions can be saved and reused at any time. As points of reference symbolic labels or hexadecimal addresses are valid.

History

1979 MXB Xpediter / TSO was the first to publish interactive debugger. 1998 Compuware achieved with Xpediter a turnover of 133 million dollars and had thereby at least a share of sixty percent in the segment test / debug software.