AID (BS200/OSD)

Powerful debugging system for increasing productivity in the software development and maintenance phase.

• AID supports symbolic debugging of COBOL, FORTRAN, C/C++, C, Assembler and PL/I programs, and non-symbolic debugging of any BS2000 programs at machine code level.


• AID permits simultaneous and uniform processing of programs and dump files in the virtual address space of the user's own task.


• AID can be used immediately (no recompilation, relinking or reloading required when switching between test and production mode).


• AID is equally suitable for use in debugging and in a production environment.


• AID does not cause any degradation in the performance of the test object in production mode.


• AID saves on training costs and offers a short learning curve since it supports many languages with the same functionality.


• AID permits complete and consistent debugging of multi-language program systems.


• AID allows access to program objects (data objects or code objects) by using the user-defined source program names.


• AID permits dynamic monitoring of program or data states.


• AID symbolic information does not require any address space in production mode, as it can be loaded when needed on a module-specific basis when the switch is made to test mode.


• From V3.2 on AID supplies the Unicode data type NATIONAL realized with COBOL2000 V1.4.