Automatically deleting InterTest for CICS breakpoints that have been sitting IDLE for more than 20 minutes

Products

• InterTest - CICS

Issue/Introduction

Automatically deleting InterTest for CICS breakpoints that have been sitting IDLE for more than 20 minutes

Resolution

If the user has an ENQ on a resource other users debugging could hang until the resource becomes available.  Intertest for CICS has an option to PURGE ACTIVE breakpoints.  

Purge break pointed tasks (PURGE) instructs  InterTest for CICS to periodically purge tasks halted at a breakpoint for longer than the specified interval. The first purge occurs when the option is specified.

Subsequent purges occur at the end of the interval, specified in hours and minutes in this format hhmm. The minimal time interval is 20 minutes. You can enter the following command at a clear screen in CICS and press ENTER.

 

CNTL=PURGE,INTRVAL=0020

 

If password protection is active then you will be prompted for a password. The default password is $FUN.

After 20 minutes a  InterTest for CICS purge will be done and tasks that are sitting at a breakpoint for more than 20 minutes will be purged. This command can be automatically done each time InterTest for CICS is started by adding it to a PROMMAC table.  The PROMMAC table contains a list of InterTest for CICS commands to be executed at startup time.