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What You Can Do When Your Program is Stopped

Once a program is stopped, you can use the CA InterTest testing and debugging facilities to do the following tasks:

• Examine the source listing.
• Examine and modify main and auxiliary storage (memory) to detect and correct errors.
• Set and remove breakpoints.
• Examine a program's statement trace.
• Keep data items in a watch view to observe changes in their values.
• Abend your task with or without a dump.
• Go around a problem by resuming program execution from a location other than the one at which the program is currently stopped.
• Execute the program in single‑step mode; that is, the program executes one verb and then stops.

When debugging your own programs, you will typically perform one or more of these activities.