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How You Analyze Production Transaction Dumps

This example assumes that you want to analyze production transaction dumps in your production region with symbolic support. We recommend this method because you can take advantage of the full power of CA SymDump for CICS by using the symbolic program feature to quickly analyze and resolve abends.

When a production program abends, you can use all of the CA SymDump for CICS options to examine the dump. Because the current symbolic listing is available, you can inspect the instruction that triggered the abend, examine the contents of data items, and scroll through the abending program listing.

With CA InterTest for CICS available in production, you can also set:

• Monitoring from CA SymDump for CICS and re-execute the program
• Breakpoints or other CA InterTest for CICS options before re-executing the program

Now when the program abends, you can inspect the statement backtrace table to determine the program's logic flow. After CA InterTest for CICS halts the program at a breakpoint, you can:

• More easily determine the cause of the error
• Fix it dynamically
• Continue program execution to make sure the program completes as expected

Having the full power of both CA SymDump for CICS and CA InterTest for CICS in production gives you all the tools you need to resolve production problems quickly and easily.