Advanced Monitoring Features › Set Options from the Monitoring Menus

Set Options from the Monitoring Menus

The CA InterTest for CICS monitoring menus are the easiest way to set many monitoring options. Access these menus from the Primary Option Menu by selecting Option 2 Monitoring, shown in the following panel:

---------------  CA InterTest for CICS Release 9.1.00  PRIMARY OPTION MENU  -------------
OPTION  ===> 2                                                                  
                                                                                
    1  Source             - Display/select program source files/listings        
    2  Monitoring         - Display/modify CA InterTest monitoring/activity     
    3  Main storage       - Display/modify CICS storage areas                   
    4  Auxiliary storage  - Display/access databases/files/queues               
    5  Dump analysis      - Invoke CA SymDump CICS dump/trace capture facility  
    6  Product help       - Invoke CA InterTest product help facility           
    7  Status/Maintenance - Product status and maintenance functions   
    8  What's new?        - Display information about CA InterTest Release 9.1.00  
    X  Exit               - Terminate menu processing                          
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CA InterTest for CICS displays the Monitoring Menu, from which you can select a variety of different monitoring options. For a detailed explanation of each of these options, use the online help or the User Guide.

--------------  CA InterTest for CICS Release 9.1.00  MONITORING MENU  ------------------
OPTION  ===>                                                                  
                                                                               
    1  Programs           - Display/modify program monitoring options          
    2  Transactions       - Display/modify transaction monitoring options      
    3  Terminals          - Display/modify terminal monitoring options         
    4  Status             - Display/remove current monitoring options          
    5  Active tasks       - Display/reconnect/purge active monitored tasks     
    6  System-wide        - Display/modify global system-wide options          
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Option 1 Programs accesses the Program Monitoring Menu, where you can set and remove any option for a program, and request a status display.

‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑  CA InterTest Release 9.1.00  PROGRAM MONITORING  ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑
 COMMAND ===>                                                                   
                                                                                
   Type information and S to set or R to remove option(s) below.               
                                                                                
   Program  . . asmdemo_     Program name (or .ALL, .OPTIONS or generic)        
   User ID  . .     ____     User (or .ANY) for whom the program is monitored   
                                                                                
   Option       Description                                            More:   +
 _ Status       Display and/or remove monitoring options (S only)               
 _ Monitor      Monitoring (R removes monitoring and all options previously set)
 _ UBP          Unconditional breakpoints (specific program only)               
 _ CBP          Conditional breakpoints (specific program only)                 
 _ RBP          Breakpoints for CICS, DB2, DL/I or external CALL requests       
 _ Stmt Trace   Statement tracing and data monitoring (COBOL only) 
 _ New copy     Fetch new copy of program and reset monitoring options (S only) 
 _ Commands     Indirect commands defined for a specific COBOL or PL/1 program 
 _ Replace      CICS resource name replacement options                          
 _ Protect      Storage protection monitoring options                          
 _ Special      Other options (storage allocation, file updating, etc.)         
 _ Composite    Monitor multi‑CSECT program's separately compiled components 
                                                                                
 PF1 Help       2            3 End        4 Return     5            6           
 PF7 Backward   8 Forward    9           10           11           12       

Quick access to this menu is available before or during a session, as described in the following table. Type the fastpath entry in the indicated field and press Enter.

After processing any program options from this menu, press PF3 to exit back to your test session. If you entered directly from CICS, you exit back to the ITST Primary menu. From a Source Listing or breakpoint, PF3 takes you back to that display.