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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

IMS Dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB

To be able to activate the dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB. For example, modifications of DB POOLS by reading DFSVSM*. So that the updates of the Proclib be validated.
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 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

Provide a command to create a DB Alloc Record for a database in DBRC Recon

Provide a command to create an ALLOC record for a database in DBRC Recon dataset. Today an ALLOC record is only created when a DLI update call is issued against the database.
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Add support for CICS MP Domain

CICS Managed Platforms domain is where any CICS System or Task policy control blocks, counters, storage etc. is going to be. The IBM IPCS CICS VERBEXIT now formats the MP domain, but Fault Analyzer is suspiciously missing that info. Please update ...
over 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Command to display Regions with PWFI=N

Please provide an IMS command to easily list all regions/MPRs that are running based on PWFI=N or PWFI=Y.
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

Allow attribute and status in Query commands.

It isn't possible to update attribute and staus in the same command, but this is also tru for Query command.Enabling the QUERY with both Attribute and Status as filter would ease the analysis.
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Fault Entries in History Dataset should be compressed

To save DASD space in environments with big regions Fault Analyzer should have an option to save and handle Fault Entries in compressed format (TRSMAIN).
over 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

BIDI support

There is no BIDI hebrew support for this product.
about 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration