Channel Display (CICS only)

CA InterTest lets you display CICS channels with containers and segments of containers, and provides straightforward branching to the Memory Dump for complete display of channel information.

View Details of Active Channels

You can invoke Channel Display from the InterTest Debug view.

To view Channel Display, right-click a program listing and select Channel Display. The Channel Display opens.

Note: This menu item will be available for only program listings within CICS projects, and only when a debugging session is active.

The Channel Display lets you to list each of the active channels and view each of the containers within each channel.

Each entry in the display represents a container, or in the case of larger containers, a segment of a container.

The Channel display shows the following information:

Column

Description

Channel/Container/Segment

Contains the name of the channel in which the container has been stored, or of the container within the channel, or the segment offset within the container.

Curr

Indicates the status of the container. An asterisk (*) indicates that this container was passed to the current program.

CpgID

Specifies the code page identifier for this container in EBCDIC format.

Length

Specifies the full length of the container.

Character Data

Provides an EBCDIC display of the first thirty-two bytes of each container or segment.

To view a memory dump within a container or segment, double-click the row you want in the Channel Display.

You can toggle between the Channel Display, the Memory Dump, and the Layout Display.


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