You can create a global preferences file that runs a set of z/OS® Debugger commands at the start of all z/OS Debugger sessions. For example, a global preferences file can have a command that sets PF keys to specific values. If your site uses the PF6 key as the program exit key, you can specify the SET PF6 "EXIT" = QUIT; command, which assigns the z/OS Debugger QUIT command to the PF6 key, in the global preferences file. (See "Customizing your full-screen session" in the IBM® z/OS Debugger User's Guide for a description of the interface features you can change.)
To create a global preferences file, do the following steps:
The rules for the preferences file are dependant on the programming language of the first program z/OS Debugger encounters. Because you might not know what programming language z/OS Debugger will encounter first, use the following rules when you create the preferences file:
For 'file_name', specify the name of the data set where the global preferences file will be stored.
The following diagram describes the syntax of the GPFDSN command:
>>-EQAXOPT--GPFDSN--+--------------------+--------------------->< '-,--'--file_name--'-'
Examples
EQAXOPT GPFDSN,’GROUP1.COMMON.DTOOL.PREFS’
EQAXOPT GPFDSN