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Perform Batch Reanalysis on FA Originating LPAR in SYSPLEX

This idea would benefit all users who run Fault Analyzer in a sysplex environment, use Fault History Views that cover history files from different LPARs in said sysplex, and have LPAR specific dependencies where running the batch reanalysis on an ...
24 days ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0

TXSeries for Linux code page support

Related to: Case #002565956Environment: TXSeries for Linuxlocale: ja_JP.sjis In case of using vendor extension characters in program source code and BMS map source, cicstcl/cicstran and cicsmap command failed.We know TXSeries uses iconv for code c...
over 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Transaction Rate Monitoring for TXSeries

We use IBM Tivoli Monitoring to monitor our TX regions. Currently, the run count of transactions is provided, which represents the total number of transactions executed. The transaction rate, which refers to the number of transactions completed pe...
5 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Improve synchronization level 2 on IPIC

Currently synchronization level 2 on IPIC connection like CICS TS is not supported in TXSeries, should use SNA connection for CICS TS where synchronization level 2 is needed for data integrity of distribute transactions.This limit is what stops us...
7 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".

Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".We do have a zos usermod in one of client system which changes the LE delimiter separator character from "/" to "\" and...
8 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

override the userid and password in the XA_OPEN string of a TXSeries region

TXSeries region does connect to the database using the user specified in the XAD.stanza when the cicsas comes up that same user will be used by application programs throughout that process for all DB related queries. For security requirement need ...
8 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

TXSeries use of PAM module needs rveiew

So the issue is that basically WebSphere Liberty is running as user cics AND thru the Web interface, in the back-end, the TXServies Web still tries to execute su - cics as demonstrated below in the screenshot, IT is NOT necessary to su to 'cics' a...
almost 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Make IBM Fault analyzer to work with BLKOFF option as well

In our organization we have used BLKOFF as default option while compiling programs and now to introduce Fault analyzer its not an easy transition as by default we are not able to use the existing compile listing as side files. We have to re-compil...
11 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

FA Eclipse: Show variable content in Cobol Source

I want to see the contents of working-storage/linkage variables in the opened Cobol source (e.g. with mouseover / hover-over) when using the Eclipse plugin for Fault Analyzer and open the programs source code
over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve the collection of IPIC and CICS traces

We can only enable IPIC and CICS traces by setting IPIC_DATA_TRACE=1 and CICSTRACE = 1 environment variables and restarting TX regions afterwards. This usage is not practical in case of an issue that we cannot reproduce as we don't know the cause ...
over 1 year ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration