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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

CRUISE Restore BFA tape roll-in should allow read from multiple drives concurrently

The CRUISE Restore tape roll-in should allow tape reads from multiple drives concurrently. CRUISE should have the option to use more than one tape drive concurrently for the BFA tape roll-in phase. The tape drives can be kept stacked with tapes so...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 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

TPFDF should utilize the RIAT

IBM Standard TPFDF uses generic prototypes for all TPFDF applications per any given pool type. SHARES uses TPFDF for roughly 75% of the database. Using IBM TPFDF standard, hundreds of millions of records per day would issue GET on the same record ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 4 Not under consideration

CRUISE should allow the aggregation of smaller tables into one large super table or a table of tables

CRUISE should allow aggregation of smaller tables into one large super table or a table made up of other tables. This would allow multiple tables to be run as a single job from start to finish. Instead of taking REF-ID parameters as input, the Sup...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Provide a means for CRUISE to recover from a hang or deadlock condition

Provide a means for CRUISE to recover from a hang or deadlock condition. A running CRUISE table has the potential to hang or get stuck in a sort of deadlock situation. The maximum allowed ECB's have already been created. One or more ECB's may need...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE should provide a facility to execute functions at the system level, e.g. full system CAPTURE

Provide new system level functions, e.g. CAPTURE type. This would scan through the entire ID range from the beginning to the end, to chain-chase each of the ID's in the DBDEF table. This is similar to what RECOUP does. Providing functions for syst...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the CRUISE cross-reference file processing and handling options

There are several considerations in how the CRUISE cross-reference files are allocated and used. In addition to the need to improving the performance which has been addressed in other RFEs, there are other enhancements that would provide more flex...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 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