CICS Program Debugging with InterTest

Course Number:  697-JK
Recommended Duration:  1 day

Intended Audience
CICS programmers who will use InterTest tools to debug programs.

Objectives
Students will learn to test/debug CICS programming problems and abends using the InterTest tools.  Greater productivity and accuracy result from fully understanding the debugging process.

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

• CNTL transaction

• CORE transaction

• FILE transaction

• LIST transaction

• Unconditional breakpoints

• Conditional breakpoints

• Single step testing

• Resume options

• Abend handling

• Storage violation protection

• Viewing and modifying storage

• Related CICS tools

• File handling