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Initiating the Test Facility

To initiate the DBTS/DBTX transaction, enter one of the following transaction IDs and press Enter.

►►─┬─ DBTS ─┬─┬─────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────►◄
   └─ DBTX ─┘ └─ ALLOW ─┘

DBTS

Initiates the Test Facility. (Your site may have defined an alternate CICS transaction ID for DBTX and DBTS. For details on assigning an alternate CICS transaction ID, see the CA Datacom CICS Services System Reference Guide.)

DBTX

Initiates the Test Facility for read-only processing. (Your site may have defined an alternate CICS transaction ID for DBTX and DBTS. For details on assigning an alternate CICS transaction ID, see the System Reference Guide.)

ALLOW

(Optional) Permits entry in Request Area lines on Test Facility panels. If this option is selected and you need to enter data in hexadecimal format, the data must be entered vertically on the second and third lines provided for REQUEST AREA (the first line is for character representation). For example, if you wanted to enter hexadecimal value '01de' in the first two bytes of the REQUEST AREA, you would enter 0d on the second line and 1e on the third line.

See the example screen in DBTS/DBTX Main Panel.

When the formatted screen appears, you may enter and execute any CA Datacom/DB command permitted by CA Datacom CICS Services. CA Datacom CICS Services does not permit some CA Datacom/DB commands including GETIT, OPEN and CLOSE. If you are using the DBTX transaction, CA Datacom CICS Services does not allow you to enter commands which would update the database.

Because DBTS allows you to update records, it runs both in pseudo-conversational and conversational mode. To conserve resources, your systems programmer can use the RTIMOUT= feature of CICS to time out unattended conversational terminals.