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Demo Session Scenario

The CA InterTest for CICS basic demo session takes you through the following scenario:

1. You use the CA InterTest for CICS Primary Option Menu to select and view the source listing of PLIDEMO, the sample program to execute.
2. You set monitoring for the sample program and view the status display of your monitoring request.
3. You exit CA InterTest for CICS menus and initiate PLIDEMO.
4. CA InterTest for CICS intercepts and prevents an ASRA abend in PLIDEMO. CA InterTest for CICS halts PLIDEMO at an assignment statement and displays a diagnostic message informing you that the problem was caused by improperly formatted data.
5. You examine the current value of TASKNUM, the receiving field in the assignment statement that you suspect might be the cause of the problem. You find that TASKNUM does not contain a valid packed decimal number.
6. You move a packed decimal zero into TASKNUM to correct the error.
7. You set a breakpoint to halt PLIDEMO at another statement. This step is purely instructional; it has nothing to do with correcting the ASRA.
8. You resume program execution. CA InterTest for CICS halts the program at the breakpoint you set in Step 7. You can see that when the assignment statement executed, the value of TASKNUM changed.
9. You clean up by removing the breakpoint you set. You then resume program execution and PLIDEMO runs to completion.