CTOTEST – Simulate Messages and/or Commands

The CTOTEST utility simulates messages and commands used to trigger Control-O rules. The messages or commands are specified in a data set used as input for the utility. When the utility is run, Control-O responds to the specified messages as if they had been issued in the usual manner.

This utility can be used to

• Check the performance of a rule or group of rules.
• Check if an existing rule handles a specific message or command.
• Check Control-O response to a series of commands and/or messages.

The CTOTEST utility is run on each record in the input file. A pair of messages is generated for each run of the utility. The first message describes the record being processed. The second message describes the Control-O response to the input record. A return code (described below) is supplied as part of the second message.