Set Monitoring

The next step is to instruct the application to monitor ASMDEMO. As part of monitoring a CICS command‑level program such as ASMDEMO, the application automatically prevents all CICS abends during execution. How this works is shown later when the application prevents ASMDEMO from abending because of an ASRA.

There are several ways you can tell the application to monitor the program. If you are currently viewing a program's source listing, you can:

Type monitor on the Command line and press Enter.
Press PF5 (notice PF5 is listed as Monitor in the earlier illustration).
Press PF5 or use the monitor command while in the Source Listing Display or the Source Listing Profile screen.
The screen momentarily flashes as the request is processed. The Source Listing Display screen then redisplays.