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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

For Fault Analyzer: Secure FA id at all published IDI0066I messages

We use FA id to get full information about CICS abends to secure action being provided. We monitor IDI0002I/3I and IDI0066I messages and at some lack of FA id for IDI0066I we are not able to get a reference for every abend to get the full picture ...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Refresh automatic Fault Analyzer Plugin PDTOOLS

the idea would be after the opening of a log file, have a way to refresh the view or the history file as the monitor JES
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide a CICS PA Explorer plug-in visualization for performance list data which includes task association data across region

Provide a CICS PA Explorer plug-in visualization for task performance list data which includes task association and hop data to see the tasks across a set of AORs during a period of time.
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

enhance Lookup view to provide more functionality

We have as an examlple MVS7Quicref that looks like RDz Lookup view. In RDz you can dubbleclick on a message and right click to show it in Lookup. But this is not true with IBM's PLI compiler messages and for that matter the PLI language reference....
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS EXPLORER as 3270 & (ISPF) CICS PA 5.1 Plug-In - Allow Customized Report Form

1. Currently CICS Performance Analyzer "Plug-In" in CICS Explorer allows only Explorer x.x Report Form to be the Default and only ones available to display in CICS Explorer. Customization of the report by Adding or Removing Column headings of the ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Suppressing reset of BLW offset

Fault Analzyer currently resets offsets in the dump under certain conditions, This makes it difficult to following addressing when users have to manually recalculate the displacement when searching the dump.
almost 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

dataset names to be standardized under FA.

Sometimes, they need to set it between quotes (for example on the FA ISPF panel for the history file), sometimes not like in the VIEW file.
almost 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

More explicit error messages

When an error message can reference several differnent causes it needs to be more explicit.
about 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration