Source Listing Facility › Customize the Source Listing Profile › Turn on Automatic Single-Stepping

Turn on Automatic Single-Stepping

Automatic single‑stepping lets you to go through your source listing a specified number of steps at specified time intervals.

Auto‑stepping= ON

To access the Auto‑stepping Parameters screen, perform the following steps:

1. Type profile on the command line and press Enter, or press PF4 from any Source Listing display. The Source Listing Profile is displayed.
2. Specify Auto‑stepping= ON.
3. Press PF4 to activate your specification. The auto‑stepping parameters are displayed.

When Auto stepping= ON, the defaults are as follows:

• Pause one second before repeating single‑stepping or automatic tracing
• Stop at the next CICS command, macro, or call

The auto‑stepping parameters are shown in the following screen.

                 CA InterTest  PROTDEM FILE SOURCE LISTING PROFILE                Command ==>                                                                    
Program= COBDEMO  Option #       Stmt #                             Margin= 01 
                                        Search=                            
OPTS 1 Proc div  2 Work-stor 3 Link sect 4 D-map      5 Clst/Pmap More:   + 
     6 Data xref 7 Proc xref 8 Err msgs  9 Srch fwd  10 Srch bwd            PFKS 1 Help      2           3 Det Bkpt   4 Profile    5 Resume     6 Menu 
     7 Backward  8 Forward   9           10 004 Verbs 11 Backtrace 12 Status  
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
                                                                              
                           Autostepping parameters
                                                        
Wait amount = 01    Enter the number of seconds to wait at each step (1 - 59)
                                                                              
Stop value  = CALL  Enter CALL to halt stepping at any COMMAND, MACRO, or CALL,
                    or the maximum number of steps to execute (1 - 9999)

To change the automatic stepping amount, perform the following steps:

1. Type profile on the command line and press Enter, or press PF4 from the Profile screen to access the auto‑stepping parameters.
2. Specify the following options:

   Wait amount

   Enter the number of seconds from 1 to 59 that CA InterTest for CICS should pause at each single‑step breakpoint.

   Stop value

   Enter a value that determines when automatic single‑stepping should terminate, either at a CICS command, macro, or call, or after a specified number of steps are executed.

3. Press Enter to process the new settings and return to the Profile screen.
4. Press Enter again to return to the Source Listing display or breakpoint screen.