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    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

    INITONLY process for databases with primary and secondary indexes

    AT&T has databases with primary and secondary indexes that require the init process however iRE cannot handle this. This would benefit the client and any other client who has a similar db requirement in disaster recovery. Currently, the iRE to...
    almost 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Is a defect

    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

    IRE - Add feature to allocated OLDS 98 and 99

    Noticed during DR exercises OLDS 98 and 99 are not added to #S02 recovery job to be reallocated in DR systems. Would it be possible to have IRE to reallocate them if the datasets exists on the live systems? All 259 IMS regions in customer's system...
    about 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 2 Not under consideration

    Display of BLF-Data

    Interactive Analysis of a batch dump: Content of BLF data online shown in dump format. Info from compile listing is not used (as in Working-Storage).
    over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

    FA Eclipse: Divide Storage Areas into Working-Storage and Linkage

    Under Event details --> Event 1/2/3/... there is an item called "Storage Areas" - this should be divided for COBOL into Working-Storage and Linkage. This division should be shown in the outline view as well.
    over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Flexible Alignment Storage Display

    Currently FA aligns its storage display at starting addresses which are multiples of 16. This is often unconvenient: Sometimes application data is not properly aligned: - address pointers not on word boundery are not point-and-shootable - bad alig...
    over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Better Support of WMQ-Applications

    Currently Fault Analyzer does not properly recognize that an abending Batch-Job or CICS transaction is connected to Websphere MQ. In these cases FA does not show any information related to MQ and last MQ-API calls.This flaw seems to arise when the...
    over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

    In IMS Recovery Expert, provide estimate of time to recover

    Typically when customers are faced with a situation where they may need to take an application offline and perform database recovery, they would like to have an estimate of the time it will take to recover in order to make a decision on if and whe...
    about 3 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 2 Future consideration

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