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Using CA InterTest for CICS to Find Errors › Redisplay the Abend

Redisplay the Abend

Even though a task abended, CA SymDump for CICS lets you redisplay the abend that caused the dump at a breakpoint so you can use CA InterTest for CICS to discover the reason for the abend.

To redisplay the abend that caused the dump at a breakpoint

  1. Display the contents of TASKNUM by entering a d to the left of statement 882.
  2. Place the cursor under any character in TASKNUM, and press Enter. The following CA InterTest for CICS screen appears.

    The structured CORE display reveals that TASKNUM contains binary zeros instead of a valid packed decimal value.

                   CA InterTest ‑ MAIN STORAGE UTILITY ‑ Termid = E024
Starting at Address =  1461A4                Hexadecimal            Character
                                           
 02 TASKNUM                           000000                       ...
 02 TASK‑TEXT
  03 TASK‑ID‑NO                       000F                         ..
  03 FILLER                           40
  03 TASK‑MESG                        E3C8C9E2 40C9E240 C140D4C5   THIS IS A ME
                                      E2E2C1C7 C5404040            SSAGE
  03 FILLER                           40
  03 TASK‑DATE
   04 TASK‑MM                         F0F9                         09
   04 TASK‑SL1                        61                           /
   04 TASK‑DD                         F1F5                         15
   04 TASK‑SL2                        61                           /
   04 TASK‑YY                         F9F3                         93
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  PF1 Help       2            3 End        4 Return     5            6          
  PF7 Backward   8 Forward    9 Caps Off  10           11 Redisplay 12 Structure
 CORE='TASKNUM'
 CORE052 FIELD DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID PACKED DECIMAL (COMP‑3) VALUE

    You can go one step further and see where TASKNUM was defined in your program.

  3. Press Clear to return to the Source Listing Dump Analysis screen.