After upgrading to Intertest CICS release 11 for CTS 5.6 compatibility Intertest CICS hangs instead of displaying the breakpoint.

Products

• InterTest - CICS

Issue/Introduction

The client installed the newest version of Intertest CICS release 11  because the earlier version did not support CTS 5.5. Now when  the client debug's a program with release 11 the terminal session hangs instead of displaying the breakpoint. The same program with the same break point can be debugged and display the breakpoint without any problems using the previous release of Intertest CICS and CTS 5.3.

Environment

Z/OS 

CICS

Cause

The client renamed two of the Intertest CICS transactions VTAT and LIST but did not create the corresponding PCT entries for the new transactions. 

Resolution

The Intertest CICS transaction VTAT controls displaying the breakpoint screen.

In this case the client renamed the default Intertest transaction VTAT to DVTA and LIST to DLIS. When the client used the Intertest CICS  verification transaction VRPT option 1 has informational messages  that RDO PCT entry's for DVTA and DLIS are missing. 

The VRPT option 1 report below has the following messages that the RDO entries are missing.

DLIS Transaction not in PCT
VIRC OK
VRPT OK
DVTA Transaction not in PCT

The client had to create PCT entries for DLIS and DVTA using the versions we ship in the CAVHJCL sample JCL PDS. Please see member HLQ.CAVHJCL(CSDINT72) for CTS 5.5.

Below are the default PCT entries for LIST and VTAT that you can use to create the DLIS and DVTA transactions. 

DEFINE TRANSACTION(LIST) GROUP(INT11072)
DESCRIPTION(INTERTEST SOURCE LISTING TRANSACTION)
PROGRAM(IN72LGET) TWASIZE(1792) DUMP(NO)
SPURGE(YES) TPURGE(YES) TASKDATALOC(BELOW)
TASKDATAKEY(USER)

DEFINE TRANSACTION(VTAT) GROUP(INT11072)
DESCRIPTION(INTERTEST TRANSACTION)
PROGRAM(IN72PGMS) TWASIZE(1792)
PRIORITY(255) SPURGE(YES) TPURGE(YES) TASKDATALOC(BELOW)
TASKDATAKEY(USER)