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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 ...
26 days ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0

Robust Mutex for z/OS pthread library.

Porting of various C/C++ opensource libs using Robust Mutex , specifically LMDB.
2 months ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 1 Under review

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

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

Fault Analayzer should be able to provide abended file and records involved in the abend

When I open a fault analyzer report for abended job I want to get the file name and all the bad records information which causes the abend.
over 8 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support to EDCDSECT for generating Doxygen-compatible comments

We have a product that has many data areas in common between C/C++ code and Assembler code. We generate the C/C++ header files from the Assembler DSECTs using the EDCDSECT utility provided by z/OS XL C/C++. We generate documentation for the C/C++ ...
over 9 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 21 Planned for future release

Have IDIS leave a re-usable ASID after it's stopped.

Fault Analyzer's IDS STC leaves its ASID un-reusable. Modify IDIS to allow its address space to be reused.
almost 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for generating AMODE 31 with xlclang++

CICS does not support 64 bit LE programs. xlclang++ cannot be used for CICS development.
over 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Future consideration

Support for __ptr64 qualifier in LE C

LE C compiler should support the __ptr64 qualifier for 64-bit pointers in 31-bit (or 64-bit) code, as it does for Metal C. Furthermore, EDCDSECT should convert a 64-bit addresses (declared as "AD") to "void * __ptr64", for consistency.
over 4 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Not under consideration