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Turn on Monitoring

To test a program, you must instruct CA InterTest for CICS to monitor it. When CA InterTest for CICS monitors a program, it detects and prevents errors before they occur, including the following events:

• All storage violations
• All CICS abends
• Any instruction that would cause a program check or other abend
• All illegal or invalid instructions that would cause CICS to crash
• All wild branches
• All violations of CICS standards

The easiest way to turn on monitoring is from the program's source listing. Follow these steps:

1. Display the source listing as described in the preceding section. A sample Source Listing Display is shown in the previous screen.
2. Specify MONITOR on the command line or Press PF5 to set monitoring, which remains in effect for the program until specifically removed.
3. Press Clear to return to CICS.

Note: Before pressing Clear to return to CICS, you might want to set breakpoints directly on the source listing. For more information on setting breakpoints, see Set and Remove Breakpoints.