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COBOL Advanced Demo Session › Option 03: Prevent a Program from Updating a File › Set the No File Updating Option

Set the No File Updating Option

  1. As we did when we set and removed the MXR and MXS options, bring up the Program Monitoring screen by specifying the SO option on the command line.

    CA InterTest for CICS displays the Special Options menu.

  2. Tab to the NUP field.
  3. Type an x, and press Enter. 
    CA InterTest MONITORING COMMAND BUILDER ‑ SPECIAL OPTIONS         22
                                                                                
      SET  one or more options to override the default monitoring rules in:     
                                PROG=COBDEMO                                    
                                                                                
           Enter X next to each option desired:                                 
                                                                                
                 Source Listing Breakpoint      (SLB) _                         
                 No file updating               (NUP) x                         
                 Reentrancy check               (RNT) _                         
                                                                                
           Follow monitoring (ON, name, NOPPT)  (FOL) ________                  
           Number of times to be monitored      (MUS) _____                     
           Limit total size of CICS storage     (MXS) _______                   
           Limit total number of CICS requests  (MXR) _______                   
                                                                                
           Set local automatic breakpoint ('*', TERMID, .ANY, OFF)     ____     
           Limit monitoring to your TERMINAL ‑ '*' or TERMID:          ____     
           User ID (or .ANY) who will execute the program:             ________
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
 PF1 Help       2            3 End        4 Return     5            6           
 PF7            8            9           10           11           12

    CA InterTest for CICS sets this option for the demo program.

  4. Press PF4 until you return to the Source Listing Breakpoint screen.

    Before resuming program execution, look at the MOVE instruction just before the EXEC CICS REWRITE command. It specifies that the data string THIS IS NOT A NAME be moved to the data field VSAM‑NAME. If the demo program actually updates the file, that data string displays at the beginning of the first record in that file.

  5. Press PF5 to continue program execution.

    The demo program resumes execution.