Restriction: This window is available only when debugging CICS COBOL applications that use channels and containers.
The
CICS Channels
window shows an expandable list of channels and the containers they contain, and also provides a view of the data stored in each
container.
The
CICS Channels window is displayed automatically when the Debugger executes an EXEC CICS statement that references a channel and/or container,
such as EXEC CICS PUT CONTAINER (CHANNEL). The window remains open and is updated automatically as and when required until
debugging is terminated.
You can also display the
CICS Channels
window manually by clicking
Debug > Windows > CICS Channels.
- Filter container names
- Type a character string to filter the list to those in the currently selected container that contain the string in their container
name.
- Channels list
- Shows the channels used by the program up to the current point in execution. Click
Name to toggle sorting the list in ascending and descending order. Click a channel name to show its containers on the
Containers list.
- Containers list
- Lists each container contained in the selected channel, along with its properties. Click a property column head to toggle
sorting the list in ascending or descending order alphabetically based on the values in the selected column.
- Name
- The name of a container in the selected
Channel.
- Length
- The length of the data in the container in bytes.
- Read-Only
-
- False
- Data in the container is editable.
- True
- Data in the container is not editable.
- Encoding
- The specified CCSID value, if used, or otherwise the character set used by the program that created the container.
- Type
- The type of container data, either Char (character) or Bit (binary).
- Container Memory Viewer
- Shows the contents of the container selected on the
Containers list.
Note: You cannot edit data in the Container Memory Viewer even when the
Read-Only setting on the container is set to
False. However, you can edit container data in either the
Memory or
Watch windows. See
Memory Window and
Watch Window for more information.
- Address
- A list of hexadecimal memory addresses for data in the selected container.
- Data
- Hexadecimal display of the binary data.
- Text
- A textual representation of the data using the specified encoding to display the text.