When you test a program with CA InterTest for CICS, your program does not usually produce a dump because CA InterTest for CICS monitors the program and halts it at an automatic breakpoint before the program abends. Then you can take advantage of CA InterTest for CICS's powerful diagnostic tools to find the problem, correct the error and continue testing.
Ideally, you might use CA InterTest for CICS to monitor every program and catch every error. However, in real world situations, that is not possible, due to the overhead involved or because you may not want to monitor security programs or programs using non‑standard code.
Consequently, although CA InterTest for CICS greatly reduces the number of dumps, dumps will still occur, especially in production. Even a thoroughly debugged program can abend because of bad data, scheduling errors, invalid parameters, and many other factors beyond programmer control.
CA SymDump for CICS Option, which stands for symbolic dump facility, is a powerful online tool designed to handle dumps. It lets you do the following tasks:
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