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MSA Programs with Special Interfaces

Problem:

The application programs that hook into large packages such as MSA do not receive control directly from CICS, and thus cannot be monitored independently from the MSA packages using standard CA InterTest for CICS monitoring. Monitoring the entire load module incurs too much overhead and often results in numerous abends because of non‑standard CICS programming practices (such as passing control using direct branches).

Solution:

Monitor only the application program that you wrote by setting a MON option near the beginning of the program and a NOM at the end of the program. Set breakpoints within this segment of code. When you execute the transaction, CA InterTest for CICS monitors only the specified code segment.

Note: For MSA programs set the MON after the secondary entry point.