CA-InterTest (from Computer Associates) is another debugging aid which is available to program developers in the test regions. It is much more powerful (and therefore more complicated to use) than CEDF. CA-InterTest has two primary purposes. One is to protect CICS from errant user programs. The other is to help programmers test and debug their programs. Although it can be used without any preprocessing, it has a SYMBOLIC option which will allow the program source to be viewed at breakpoints, etc. The SYMBOLIC option requires a preprocessing step be inserted in the compile JCL. An example of the JCL can be found in CICS.USER.SAMPLIB.

CA-InterTest has five primary transaction identifiers:

• ITST - (new) primary option menu (replacement for CNTL)
• CNTL - (old) main menu and command processor
• CORE - display or modify main storage
• FILE - display or modify VSAM, BDAM, DB2, TS queues, or TD queues
• LIST - source program display (if SYMBOLIC option used)
• HELP - complete on-line help for CA-InterTest

CA-InterTest manuals are available at: http://booksrv.cns.ufl.edu/.

CMAC is a transaction which gives online access to information that is contained in the CICS Messages And Codes manual. It may be accessed by typing one of the following from a clear screen in any CICS test region:
• CMAC (then fill in the blanks on the screen)

• CMAC abcd (where 'abcd' is the abend code)

• CMAC xxxx (where 'xxxx' is the message number only)

• CMAC yyxxxx (where 'yy' is the component id and 'xxxx' is the message number)

• CMAC DFHxxx (where 'xxxx' is the message number)

• CMAC DFHyyxxxx (where 'yy' is the component id and 'xxxx' is the message number)

CMAC is documented in IBM's CICS-Supplied Transactions manual.

Code-1 Plus is an address matching system which standardizes and corrects address information according to US Postal Service conventions. A sample CICS COBOL program which demonstrates the invokation of the Code-1 Plus address matching routine is available in CICS.USER.SAMPLIB member NWNWGP. This sample application is also installed in most CICS regions and can be invoked by entering the transaction id NWGP from a clear screen. If you wish to use the NWGP transaction instead of writing one of your own, feel free to do so. For further information on the use of Code-1 Plus in CICS, contact Barry Brooks. For information about using Code-1 Plus in batch, contact Jim Arnette.

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Last updated: August 7, 2006 by Steve Ware.