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Examine and Modify Main and Auxiliary Storage

CA InterTest for CICS has powerful facilities for examining and modifying main and auxiliary storage. You can take advantage of these facilities while testing a program. For example, you can interrupt program execution at various points to see how the values of program variables and test data have changed. And, you can dynamically modify storage as your testing progresses.

Example

You can halt your program, change the value in a flag, initialize a counter, or change the data in a test record, and then resume execution—all without recompiling.

You can inspect and modify main and auxiliary storage at any time—even when no program is executing and CA InterTest for CICS is otherwise inactive. System programmers can use CA InterTest for CICS to fine‑tune CICS. They can display the contents of CICS control blocks and tables in main storage, making changes as necessary.

CA InterTest for CICS also makes it easy to maintain files online without writing one‑time programs. You can use CA InterTest for CICS to add, update, and delete records in VSAM and BDAM files and DL/I, DB2 and SQL/DS databases. With CA InterTest for CICS, it is easy to browse a file and search for a character string. CA InterTest for CICS also lets you create and delete transient data and temporary storage records.