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Fault Analyzer for z/OS

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Enhance Display of Channel/Container Info in CICS Dumps

Currently FA displays Channel info in Level, Commareas, and Channels.This display is inconvenient when inspecting a dump with a lot of levels and with channels which contain a lot (sometimes hundreds) of containers.The display of one container con...
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

FAZ Plug-in: Fault List should be sorted by combined Date_Time value

(Please also see Case TS008090491 for a detailed discussion of the issue that this RFE wishes to resolve) Hi, When using the ISPF interface, if the Fault List is sorted by Date, values of Time are sorted accordingly within each date value, regardl...
over 2 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

FA to warn on source mismatch if NOLIST option was on

FA usually does a check if a compiler listing matches the module in storage or not. This is done by comparing the last few instructions in te listing with the last instructions in the loaded module. But FA can't do this check for COBOL if the NOLI...
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Fault Analyser : Retrieve Cobol Special Register values in Dump

It would be very useful to have the Cobol Register value included in the Fault Analyzer Dump.In a Cobol Dump, when value contained in Cobol Special Register are involved in the cause of the abend, there's currently no way to find them in the Fault...
about 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enhance Fault Analyzer analysis of CICS SVC dumps to include all types of registers in Kernel Error Data

CICS Kernel Error Data contains the Vector Registers at the time of the error. IPCS VERBX DFHPD### 'KE' provides all the following General Purpose RegistersAccess Registers Floating Point Registers Vector Registers However Fault Analyzer ISP...
12 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Show compilation module time and date stamps in descending sequence on one panel

When teaching the FA class at Highmark, they requested a screen that depicts all the modules accessed by Fault Analyzer during the abend process be depicted on one panel, with the time and date reverse chronological sequence. Other ISV products pr...
over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

FA IDz client to access saved report from history file

Hello, The FA ISPF interface allows a user to select/view the saved report from the history file. However, the IDz plugin does not have the ability to read/access/present this data and must drive a reanalysis of the fault in order to produce a rep...
about 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Module names missing in FA eclipse GUI

In the old FA ISPF user interface “6. Storage Areas” the storage areas are listed as “Event nn Program xxxxxxx Data” and you can very easy investigate storage areas for a specific module. In the FA eclipse GUI “Event details” are they listed as “E...
over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

FA plugin must automatically add default hsitory files to a system

When a user adds a system entry to the Fault Analyser Objects View he needs to add the default history file dataset manually.This is a problem for users who do not know the default history files on all the systems. FA Plugin should provide a metho...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

FA: Display register's full content: all 64 bits

Modern Compilers (e.g. Enterprise Cobol V5.2) and modern assembler programs are using the full width of GPRs to do 64-bit interger arithmethic or by taking advantage of the high-word facility.After an abend, only the right half (low-word) of the r...
almost 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

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