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FILE Changes Do Not Affect Main Storage at a Breakpoint

FILE changes do not automatically affect main storage.

Example

If you are stopped at a breakpoint and you use FILE to change the record that your program is processing, the change you made using FILE is not automatically reflected in your program's main storage because your program has already read the record.

To make the change in main storage, return to the breakpoint screen, and do one of the following actions:

• Instruct the program to read the record again
• Repeat the changes to main storage that you made to the record or database

Note: If multiple fields need to changing, select multiple items for display or modification from the Working‑storage or Local-Storage section of a COBOL program.

To return to the breakpoint display after using FILE, press PF3 or Clear. (If you also accessed the CA InterTest for CICS CNTL, CORE, or Help facilities, you might need to press Clear more than once.)

Changes to data using FILE are permanent updates to the records or database. It is as if you wrote a batch program to perform the updates.