Advantages of CA InterTest for CICS Over EDF

CA InterTest for CICS offers many advantages over the EDF facility, including the following benefits:

The ability to set breakpoints anywhere in the program (not just at EXEC CICS commands).
Data display/modification by symbolic names. This means the programmer does not need the most recent listing of the tested program, as long as the data names or paragraph names (labels in Assembler) remain the same.
Monitoring with the ability to detect any illegal action of the program between CICS commands. CICS abends are intercepted by EDF, but damage might have occurred on the way to the abend, and EDF might not give any specifics on the problem.
The ability to declare an unconditional or conditional breakpoint at a specific location—the EXEC CICS call at the point when the EXEC CICS call parameters are already formatted. At that time change the parameters (for example, by issuing the CORE=ARGnn command) before you let the command execute.
The ability to set request breakpoints for a particular type of CICS command, regardless of where in the program it occurs, or for all EXEC CICS commands, or for all except some EXEC CICS commands. For example, with one specification set breakpoints at all File Control commands or at all READ or WRITE commands.