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FA: Enhance Navigation in Storage Display in Interactive Mode

In interactive mode with ISPF the navigation with display of storage should be enhanced: Better structuring: FA should take into account the boundary of the storage segments and should restrict scrolling to the segment, where the currently display...
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

include DB2 SQLCODES in the determination of normal duplicates

fault analyzer does currently consider two different sqlcodes as a normal duplicate
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow or deny IDIREPRT similarly to the parameter exclude from IDICNF00

Hello We want to be able allow or deny IDIREPRT for some jobs or stcs similarly to the parameters exclude/include from IDICNF00. We want to keep the historical reports, so Fault Analyzer should be kept running, so no turning off. Adding the DD IDI...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Fault Analyzer event summary enhancement

We would like to have direct access via hotlink to the working storage areas for each application program in the event summary for transaction dumps and PG link levels for system dumps. This area should be formatted if the source is available, or ...
almost 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

exit or option to suppress SVC dump if CIC transaction dump was taken

One of the product teams at DST would like to suppress SVC dumps within CICS unless it is detected that a transaction dump has not been taken. Currently transaction dumps may be suppressed by FAULT ANAYLZER which we use within our cics regions whe...
almost 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Delay processing of CINB save to VSAM function.

We want to run the collector for a time period then pause without incurring the overhead of CINB writing to VSAM until later in the day when it is quieter.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow option to move IDI messages to a CICS TDQ for Fault Analyzer

As Fault Analyzer deployed to our CICS regions, we have found it to be a bit "noisey". An option to move various Fault Analyzer messages to a TDQ just for Fault Analyzer would help reduce the complexity of the system log.
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add FA/ISPF Point-and-Shoot's functionality to View mode of Fault Entry

Enhance Fault Analyzer's ISPF interface to allow for Point-and-Shoot functionality without Interactive Reanalysis
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

CICS IA Support SQL Insert for DB2 LUW

CICS IA DB2 UDB support assumes that the data must be transferred to LUW and special scripts will be executed to import/load the data into the data base. There is no method on how to run batch jobs on z/OS to directly query DB2 UDB or load the dat...
about 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Datacom support

Our team uses CA-Datacom as a database for CICS applications. CICS IA does not track CICS applications that are making database queries/changes to Datacom.
about 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration