CICS Program Debugging

Course Number: 694-JK
Recommended Duration: 2 days

Intended Audience
Programmers who will code, maintain, and test CICS programs.

Course Overview
This course covers testing and test planning, as well as solution of program errors.

Objectives
Students will learn to use the CEDF online debugging facility to test programs and solve problems. In addition, students are shown how to use the CEMT, CEBR, CMAC, and CECI facilities to provide greater testing flexibility and control. Use of CICS transaction dumps is also covered.

Prerequisites
The student entering this course should have 6 months recent experience programming in CICS or have completed the "CICS Command Level Coding" course within the last 12 months.

Topics

CEDF online debugging
Dynamic command modification
Changing working storage
Methods to speed up testing
Handling abends
Pseudo-conversational testing
Using CEBR to scan temporary storage
CEMT facilities used to enhance/control testing
CMAC error message transaction
CECI transaction to check statement syntax
CECI file processing
Creating CECI variables
Using the trace table
CETR trace transaction
Reading a CICS transaction dump
Test planning

CICS Program Debugging

CEDF online debugging

Dynamic command modification

Changing working storage

Methods to speed up testing

Handling abends

Pseudo-conversational testing

Using CEBR to scan temporary storage

CEMT facilities used to enhance/control testing

CMAC error message transaction

CECI transaction to check statement syntax

CECI file processing

Creating CECI variables

Using the trace table

CETR trace transaction

Reading a CICS transaction dump

Test planning