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Breakpoint Activities › The CHANNEL Command

The CHANNEL Command

The CHANNEL command enables you to list each of the active channels and view each of the containers within each channel. This feature is only available for IBM CICS Transaction Server.

To display the channels and containers, use one of these two commands:

----------------  CA InterTest r8.5   CHANNEL/CONTAINER STORAGE  ---------------
COMMAND ===>                                                                  
                                                                              
  Type S to display main storage.                                     More:   
                                                                              
  Channel          Container     Curr CPGID Length    Character Data          
_ LNK0CHAN-01      LNK0CONT-00      x 00037 0008106 * 2 LNK0CH02 CONTAI..... *
_                    +000FD8                        * ********************** *
_                    +001FB0                        * ********************** *
_                    +002F88                        * ********************** *
_                    +003F60                        * ********************** *
_                    +004F38                        * ********************** *
_                    +005F10                        * ********************** *
_                    +006EE8                        * ********************** *
_                    +007EC0                        * ********************** *
_ LNK0CHAN-01      LNK0CONT-01      x 00037 0008106 * 1 LNK0CH01 CONTAI..... *
_                    +000FD8                        * ********************** *
_                    +001FB0                        * ********************** *
_                    +002F88                        * ********************** *
_                    +003F60                        * ********************** *
_                    +004F38                        * ********************** *
                                                                              
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Each entry in the display represents a container, or in the case of larger containers, a segment of a container. The display shows the following information:

Field

Description

Channel

The name of the channel in which the container has been stored

Container

The name of the container, or the segment offset withing the container

Curr

An X indicates that this container was passed to the current program

CPGID

The code page identifier for this container in EBCDIC format

Length

The full length of the container

Character Data

An EBCDIC display of the first twenty-two bytes of each container or segment

To view the storage within a container or segment, place an s on the line next to that container or segment and press Enter.