If your program has multiple symbols with the same name, you may need to use pathnames to resolve symbol ambiguities. For example, your program may have a variable X in procedure A, another variable X in procedure B which is nested in procedure A, and still another variable X in procedure C. If you specify X, as in this example, the debugger uses symbol search conventions (based on the PC scope) to resolve the ambiguity: DBG> EXAMINE X If the debugger cannot do so, it issues the following message: %DEBUG-W-NOUNIQUE, X is not unique. To resolve the ambiguity, you can specify which X you want by using a pathname. For example: DBG> EXAMINE A\X DBG> EXAMINE A\B\X DBG> EXAMINE C\X For more information, see the SET SCOPE command.