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CICS/ESA FEPI Considerations

CA Verify for CICS is capable of logging and running CICS/ESA FEPI front-end and back-end applications. However, because the CICS/ESA FEPI option uses its own type of virtual terminals to drive the back-end applications, you must be aware of the following considerations:

• You must not log both real (front-end) terminals and FEPI virtual (back-end) terminals in the same multiple terminal test stream or the results from a subsequent RUN function will be unpredictable. This is because when the RUN function executes the FEPI front-end application(s), the FEPI back-end applications are automatically re-executed at the same time CA Verify for CICS is also trying to execute the same back-end applications.
• You can log multiple terminal test streams for either FEPI front-end applications or back-end applications in different test streams. When you subsequently RUN the front-end application test stream, both the front-end and back-end applications will be executed, and when you subsequently RUN the FEPI back-end test stream, only the back-end applications are executed.
• For CA Verify EEO only, the same previous considerations apply when logging and running test-streams using the L.A option.