Considerations for a Tested Program's Environment

After the TEST or TESTAUTH command finishes processing a program, the program's environment has the following characteristics:

The ASC mode is primary
The primary, secondary, and home address spaces are equal
The primary, secondary, and home address spaces are the same as when the program was invoked

If the program you are testing ends abnormally, the environment of the tested program might not be identical to the environment that it had prior to its ending. The environment of the tested program might have one or more of the following characteristics when it ends:

The ASC mode was not primary
The primary, secondary, and home address spaces were not equal
The primary, secondary, and home address spaces were not the same as when the program was invoked

You can use the assignment functions of the TEST command to correct the ASC mode and address spaces. You can then correct the problem that caused the abend in the program and continue testing.

Refer to z/OS TSO/E Command Reference for additional information about the assignment functions of the TEST command.

If you cannot correct the environment of the tested program, you might be unable to test the remainder of the program. (For example, you cannot correct the environment of a tested program if that program was running in cross-memory mode.) You must end your test session, correct the abend, and then test the program again.