TEST option

If you invoked access method services in a batch job, you can use the TEST option to activate the printing of diagnostic output at selected points within access method services. The TEST keyword controls the TEST option, as TEST keyword explains.

The TEST option enables you to print the following information:

The intermodule and intramodule trace tables.
Selected areas of virtual storage.
Full region dump.

Each variation of the TEST option provides an additional level of information. The possible variations follow:

Print the trace tables only
Print the trace tables and selected areas of virtual storage
Print the trace tables and selected areas of virtual storage and take a full region dump.