Method, system and program products for screening a program of a computing
environment for debug processing are presented which employ a table that
contains information identifying at least some program areas of storage of
the computing environment where programs to be debugged may reside and
information identifying programs of the computing environment to be
excluded from debugging. After detecting a debug trigger point during
execution of a program, screening is accomplished by referencing the table
to first ascertain whether the trigger point is within a program area of
storage meaning that the program under execution may comprise an
application program to be debugged, and if so, referencing the table to
determine whether the program has been explicitly excluded from the debug
processing. If not excluded, debug processing may proceed.
