1. Double-click the graphics variable in the Source pane. Right-click the variable and select Add to Program Monitor.

2. Double-click the value in the Monitors pane.

3. Remove the old value completely and then enter the new one.

4. Add a G in front of the first single quote (for example, G'X Y Z ') to indicate that this is a graphic value. Press Enter.

- If a statement in the program contains a literal string with unprintable characters, you may not be able to highlight variables in that statement.

- If you try to edit the value of a variable that contains unprintable data, the boxes are replaced by the tilde character. 

- You may not be able to see the end of a long string.

To check your workstation registry to ensure that no parent products are installed, do these steps: 

1. Click Start -> Run, type regedit, and click OK. The Registry Editor opens.
2. Double-click the following folders:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
   SOFTWARE
   IBM
   IBM Distributed Debugger
   CurrentVersion
   install
   ParentProducts
3. Check for parent products. If no parent product is installed, proceed to the next step. If a parent product is installed, do not uninstall the Distributed Debugger.

1. Double-click the install folder again.
2. Right-click RefCount and select Modify.
3. Change the number to 1 and click OK.

1. Click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel.
2. Click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
3. On the Install/Uninstall page, click IBM Distributed Debugger in the list of installed products, then click OK.
4. Shut down and reboot your workstation.

1. Right-click the My Computer icon and select Properties. 

2. Click the Environment tab.

3. In the User Variables section, add the variable PLILPATH4 and give it a value that includes the client's MACROS directory for VisualAge PL/I. For example, if the VisualAge PL/I client portion is installed in c:\Ibmpliw, then the value of the new PLILPATH4 variable would be C:\IBMPLIW\MACROS;%PLILPATH4%.

Or, if you have administrator authority on the client workstation, you can add the client's MACROS directory path in front of the existing value for the PLILPATH4 variable in the System Variables section.

4. Click Apply and then click OK.

The two utilities can be found in the \service directory and are named:

1. IWZFREXX.EXE
   This utility is run first. It will search your hard drives and find all of your REXX installations. It then presents you with four choices:
   1. "Use the REXX installation from VA COBOL (Recommended, but may break other programs)."
      This option should not be chosen when in an IBM VisualAge PL/I environment. It looks for COBOL-specific information and will return an error.
   2. "Use the REXX files with the most recent date."
      Choose this option to use the most recent REXX environment installed on your machine. It generates a report file that can be used by the IWZUREXX.EXE utility to undo the changes made to your system.
   3. "List the most recent files that will be used."
      Choose this option to list the files that would be used if Option 2 were chosen.
   4. "Exit without making an changes."
      Choose this option if you wish to do nothing. It generates a report that lists all of the REXX files from all the REXX installations on your hard drives. This report would be useful should you decide to do the selecting and renaming of the REXX files by hand.


2. IWZUREXX.EXE
   This utility will undo the changes that were made if Option 2 from the IWZFREXX.EXE utility were chosen. It requires the generated report file from Option 2 as input.

1. Click Start -> Programs -> IBM VisualAge PL/I -> IBM VisualAge PL/I Projects.

2. In the list of projects, find the project that you want to make the new tool available to. Write down the entire directory path, followed by the project name, followed by .iwp. For example, c:\winnt\profiles\longwell\application data\ibm\vapli\projects\test.iwp, where test is the project name and test.iwp is the name of the project definition file.

3. Click Start -> Programs -> IBM VisualAge PL/I -> Tools -> Program Editor. In the Editor window, open the definition file for the project, using the information that you wrote down in the previous step.

4. In the project definition file, find the +toolGroup= key and its value (for example, +toolGroup=mvs). This value is the name of the ToolGroup to which the new tool must belong if it is to be available to the project.

5. In the Editor window, open the solution configuration file VAPLIV3.IWS, which is typically in the c:\WINNT\Profiles\username\Application Data\IBM\VAPLI\MainPrj folder.

6. Make a copy of VAPLIV3.IWS to safeguard against errors.

7. In VAPLIV3.IWS, find the definition of the tool that you added (the +title= key will match the name you gave the tool).

8. Add a line in the body of the tool definition, and enter the +toolGroup=  key and the value that you found in step 4 above (for example, +toolGroup=mvs). Save and close the file. If a +toolGroup statement already exists but the value does not match the value you found in step 4 above, you can add your value after the existing value, separating the values with a blank (for example, +toolGroup=ws mvs).

9. Close the IBM VisualAge PL/I Projects window, if it is still open.

1. Right-click your desktop. Click Properties.

2. Click the Settings tab. 

3. Decrease the number of colors or the refresh frequency. Click OK.

1. Click Start -> IBM VisualAge PL/I -> IBM VisualAge PL/I Projects.

2. Click the Create New Project tab.

3. Enter the information requested until you are prompted to specify the location and name of the folder that will hold your project definition files.

4. Click the Browse button to the right of the input field.

5. Click c:\WINNT\Profiles\<user name>\Desktop.

6. Click the Create a new folder icon in the upper right corner of the Browse for a Project Definition File Folder window.

7. Enter PLI_Projects as the name of the new folder and press Enter. Click OK to close the window. Click Yes if prompted to create the folder. Click OK when prompted to accept the new default path.

8. Click Finish. The PLI_Projects folder is created on your desktop.