Testing a TSS Table
Once you have specified data in a TSS table, the Test a Table pop-up window allows you to query the table to ensure that it functions as expected. This capability is particularly useful for TSS tables that use pattern masking or translate assist exits.
Panel Flow – Testing a TSS Table
Before you begin
You must have created a TSS data set. See TSS-Data-Sets and Allocating-and-Formatting-a-TSS-Data-Set, as well as Defining-a-TSS-Table for information and instructions.
If you will be testing a translate assist exit, the load library that contains the exit must be a part of your STEPLIB concatenation.
To Test a TSS Table
- Go to the ETA Translate Sub-System panel. From the ETA Main Menu, type 1 in the Selection field and press Enter. The ETA Translate Sub-System panel is displayed.
- Specify basic TSS information, then go to the Test a Table pop-up window.
- Type 3 in the Selection field.
Specify the TSS table name if you know it. Type one of the following in the Table name field:
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Know the TSS table name
Type the table name in the Table name field.
Want to view a selection list of TSS tables
Leave the Table name field blank.
- Verify or change the following data:
- TSS table data set name
- TSS data set disposition
Press Enter. The panel that is displayed depends on what you specified in the Table name field.
- Scroll through the list of TSS tables until you find the table that you want to test.
- Type S in the Act field for that table and press Enter. The Test a Table pop-up window is displayed.
- Test argument and result pairs.
- Type an argument in the Arg field and press Enter. If TSS finds a match in the table, the result is displayed. You can only use wildcard characters in arguments if the table supports wildcard masking.
Test other argument and result pairs as required.
If you want to test argument and results...
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In another TSS table in the same TSS data set
Type the name of the TSS table in the Table name field and press Enter. Repeat Step 3.a as required.
In another TSS data set
Press F3 until the ETA Translate Sub-System panel is displayed and repeat this task, starting with Step 2.a.
- Press F3 until the ETA Main Menu is displayed.
Where to go from here
To implement changes that you have made to the TSS table on an IMS system that uses cache buffering for access to TSS data sets, refresh the TSS tables in the IMS control region. See Refreshing-TSS-Table-Data-in-an-IMS-Control-Region.