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Fault Analyzer for z/OS

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Support UTF8 presentation in Fault Analyzer

The current Fault Analyzer UI cannot view UTF-8 characters in the dump, it can only view EBCDIC/ ASCII. even we change the codepage to UTF-8, it won't be able to show NLS characters.
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Select only today's abends

I am trying to use the MATCH command in the view creation to select the most recent entries, such as today's, hoping it will limit the amount of required storage.Example of view :* Vue de mes abends DELAHAY.IDI.HIST ADTCFG.IDI.HIST * My own entrie...
almost 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add the possibility to force acceptance of sidefile even if mismatch

In the 3270 interactive reanalysis, the user can force Fault Analyzer to accept a side file even if the verification fails. The user "accepts" that a mismatch may happen.It is not possible from the RDz plug-in. It is important that this feature is...
almost 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Menu en angalis au lieu d'etre en fran?ais

Le menu de Fault Analyzer plugin est anglaismerci de faire la traduction en français
about 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 6 Delivered

Avoid seeing the Prompt for missing sidefile for a selection of modules

A solution to avoid seeing the panel prompting for missing side file for technical modules (you need to press PF3 to exit the panel) especially when there are many such modules around the COBOL program we are interested in.
about 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Support to Software AG Natural language ABENDs in Fault Analyzer

My customer has Fault Analyzer and he asked me about support to Software AG Natural & Adabas abends
about 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Storage Violation Analysis in Fault Analyzer

Customers Pain Points - Many developers runs together their CICS online applications on Test system for developing and maintaining.- While running, his/her transaction is abnormally terminated with Storage Violation. - To find out who cause his/he...
over 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Allow Changes To Default History File Allocation.

When a user copies a fault out of FA into a private library, the defaults for allocating the new file are: 100 Cylinders 25 Cylinders F (1-3 alphabetic characters) LIBRARY (LIBRARY or PDS) 100 (25-9999999) The product should be changed to allow th...
over 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Rdz Fault Analyzer. Create ability to view production abend

RDz - Fault Analyzer; viewing a production abend creates "Invalid Fault Entry" message
about 15 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

Add time and date to IDILTRACE reports

Add time and date to IDILTRACE reports. Requested by customer. When IDITRACE is used within a CICS region, it is difficult to correlate the IDITRACE information to the transaction abend that occurs in CICS.
over 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered