PL/I Advanced Demo Session › Option 02: Limit CICS Storage and Requests › Set the MXS and MXR Options

Set the MXS and MXR Options

1. Type SO in the command line.
2. Press Enter.

   The Special Options menu appears.

   The Special Options menu lets you set several options to change how CA InterTest for CICS monitors a program. You are going to set two options:

   • MXS, to limit the amount of CICS main storage acquired by the demo program
   • MXR, to limit the total number of CICS requests issued by the demo program
3. Specify 50,000 bytes as the maximum amount of main storage the demo program can get, and specify 20 as the maximum number of CICS requests the demo program can issue.
4. Tab to the MXS field and type in 135000, as shown next.
5. Tab to the MXR field and type in 20, as shown next.
6. Press Enter.

   CA InterTest MONITORING COMMAND BUILDER - SPECIAL OPTIONS         22
                                                                                   
         SET  one or more options to override the default monitoring rules in:     
                                   PROG=PLIDEMO                                    
                                                                                   
              Enter X next to each option desired:                                 
                                                                                   
                    Source Listing Breakpoint      (SLB) _                         
                    No file updating               (NUP) _                         
                    Reentrancy check               (RNT) _                         
                                                                                   
              Follow monitoring (ON, name, NOPPT)  (FOL) ________                  
              Number of times to be monitored      (MUS) _____                     
              Limit total size of CICS storage     (MXS) 135000                   
              Limit total number of CICS requests  (MXR) 20_____                   
              Structure Display Format (HEX,DATA)  (SDF) ____                      
                                                                                   
              Set local automatic breakpoint ('*', TERMID, .ANY, OFF)     ____     
              Limit monitoring to your TERMINAL - '*' or TERMID:          ____     
              User ID (or .ANY) who will execute the program:             .ANY     
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
    PF1 Help       2            3 End        4 Return     5            6           
    PF7            8            9           10           11           12
   

   CA InterTest for CICS limits main storage and CICS requests for the demo program and redisplays the Program Monitoring screen.

7. Press PF4 until you are returned to the Source Listing Breakpoint screen.
8. Press PF5 to continue program execution.

   The demo program resumes execution.