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CSFE—terminal and system test
Chapter 21. CSFE—terminal and system test
Use CSFE to diagnose terminal problems and software
problems. This transaction is mainly intended to be used by
system programmers and IBM field engineers.
Use this transaction to:
Test your terminal
Activate the system spooling interface trace
Activate the terminal builder trace
Activate any of the following: storage freeze, the storage
violation trap, and the global trap/trace program exit
routine.
For each of these activities, successful completion of the
CSFE transaction gives you the following message:
DFHFE331 Transaction complete
For information about the use of this transaction, see the
CICS Problem Determination Guide
.
Terminal test
You can use CSFE to test your terminal, but only if it is one
of the terminals supported by CICS.
You cannot use CSFE to test the following:
IBM 2780 Data Transmission terminals
IBM 3600 Finance Communication System terminals
IBM 3614 Consumer Transaction Facility terminals
IBM 3735 Programmable Buffered terminals
Output-only printers (for example, printers of the IBM
3270 Information Display System).
You start the transaction by entering CSFE on the command
line of the screen, as follows:
CSFE
Press the ENTER key. You get the following display:
DFHFE334 Enter PRINT for character set, END to
terminate. All other data will be echoed.
END
When you type END on the command line of the screen,
the test ends.
PRINT
When you enter PRINT, all characters printable or
capable of display at the terminal are sent to your
terminal.
Any other input is returned to your terminal (that is, it is
echoed), unless it is of the form of one of the other CSFE
requests.
System spooling interface trace
You can use CSFE to request additional trace and diagnostic
facilities for the system spooling interface.
─ ──CSFE spoolfe= ──┬ ┬─ON── ─
└┘─OFF─
OFF
switches off the system spooling interface trace and the
diagnostic facility.
ON
specifies that additional trace entries of system type are
provided for the system spooling interface.
SPOOLFE
is the system spooling interface trace and diagnostic
facility.
Terminal builder trace
You can use the CSFE transaction to activate and deactivate
the terminal builder trace.
─ ──CSFE zcqtrace ──┬ ┬─=termid────── ─
├┤─,AUTOINSTALL─
└┘─,OFF─────────
,AUTOINSTALL
Switches tracing on for autoinstalled terminals.
,OFF
Switches tracing off for individual and autoinstalled
terminals.
=termid
Switches tracing on for the terminal or connection
identified by termid.
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