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Fault Analyzer for z/OS

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Provide option to suppress native CICS Transaction Dumps after successful Fault Analyzer invocation of EXEC CICS DUMP

Provide an option where, after a successful invocation of Fault Analyzer, the native CICS Transaction Dump from an EXEC CICS DUMP command is suppressed, as it is for an EXEC CICS ABEND command.
over 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enhance FA Plugin to automatically populate views

The FA/ISPF interface on z/OS can maintain a list of Views that are available to all FA/ISPF users. This enhancement would request that this prepopulated list is passed from FA on z/OS to the FA Plugin in an Eclipse environment to aid users in hav...
over 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhance IDIS subsystem to accept passed parameter for IDIHIST

Enhance the IDIS subsystem to accept a passed IDIHST file specification.
over 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

Refresh automatic Fault Analyzer Plugin PDTOOLS

The idea would be after the opening of a log file, have a way to automatically refresh the view or the history file, similar to how can be done with the JES monitor (see attached screen image).
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Include all fields in DFSDACCT in IMS Information

In the IMS Information section in a Fault Analyzer dump, in the accounting area, it would be helpful if it included all of the accounting fields. Currently it only shows a subset of the DLI calls. I am most interested in seeing the ESAF call count...
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Allow ISPF User symbolic in dataset name substitution

Per http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/?lang=en#!/SSXJAJ_13.1.0/com.ibm.faultanalyzer.doc_13.1/dsnsyms.htm%23dsnsyms , Fault Analyzer 13.1 currently does not allow &SYSUID. nor &TSOPFX. to be used in IDILCOB, IDISYSDB, and IDILA...
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Enhance CICS Transaction Storage Display

FA provides to displays to show transaction storage in a CICS dump:1. CICS Transaction Storage Summary: This display should be enhanced by providing sorting and filtering by length and DSA pool in the user interface. 2. CICS Transaction Storage: E...
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 5 Delivered

Add Threadsafety to IBM Fault Analyzer

The Fault Analyzer product has a couple programs that are definied as Quasirentrant in CICS. Of particular note is that the XEIIN exit examines every EXEC CICS statement, incurring overhead when activated. Making FA threadsafe, particularly around...
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Additional security for Fault Analyzer history file entires

Provide extended security to limit a user's access to entries in a Fault Analyzer History File to include the CICS Transaction level.
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

PD Tools Lookup view - lookupText method could it return other stuff than null

When using LookupView.lookupText() I would like to able to see if something is actually found, since if not a message should be shown. Currently the method only returns null? Instead of returning a string, maybe it could return the number of hits ...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

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