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Fault Analyzer for z/OS

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Fault Analyzer provides COBOL specific help without matching source

When an event is for an IBM COBOL for z/OS v4 or earlier program without matching source, Fault Analyzer provides COBOL specific help: - A link to the Task Global Table (TGT)- Links to working storage BLW cells- Links to linkage section BLL cels S...
about 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

64-bit support for DSECT command

Data areas above the bar are occuring frequently in CICS when using EXEC CICS LINK PROGRAM() CHANNEL() and are shown as such (Channel Containers) in FA when analyzing a dump.Currently FA's DSECT command does not allow 64-bit addresses. DSECT comma...
over 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Change existing VSAM open behavior

An abend during processing invokes a VSAM open of IDISVENU dataset. This VSAM OPEN causes memory fragmentation as the page is not freed after abend processing. This eventually results in a S106 abend when unable to locate a large enough contiguous...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Info needed who locked a Fault Entry

Fault entries can be locked to prevent deletion. The user name field on that panel is an optional field which is to be filled manually. This is insufficient in many cases-A read only field showing the userid who last set the lock flag is required.
almost 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

FA - Add BEAR display for CICS Transaction Dump Analysis

CICS transaction abend analysis do not show the BEAR (Breaking Event Address Register). The BEAR is available in many of the CICS (i.e. DFHTACB, KERRD) and z/OS (SDWA, ESPIE, RTM) diagnostic control blocks. I am told that the BEAR is displayed for...
over 5 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Adding a timeframe filter including duplicates

It would be very useful to be able to give a timeframe (date&time "from" and "to") and get a list of all the faults that happened during that time.Currently one has to take into account fault duplicates which might "hide" inside entries that w...
almost 7 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Format CICS Monitoring Data

In CICS region dumps the data from the monitoring domain is easily locatable with Fault Analyzer via "Monitoring Transaction Summary" and there address of TMA. But currently FA only displays DFHMNTDS unformated as normal storage display.FA should ...
about 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Enhance Storage Display in Interactive Mode 3270

In interactive mode with ISPF the display of storage should be enhanced: 1. Better structuring of storage display: FA should take into account the boundary of the storage segments and should restrict scrolling to the segment, where the currently d...
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Modify the content and increase the size of CICS trace gathered by Fault Analyzer

When Fault Analyzer gathers trace entries for a CICS abending task a storage area is used to copy the trace entries in to. The size of this storage area and hence the number of trace entries copied is limited to 256K, moreover copied trace entries...
almost 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Eclipse - the FA plug-in to to have variables with invalid values highlighted in the File/Linkage/Working-Storage section displays.

In Eclipse UI, there should be option to highlight the invalid values in the File/Linkage/Working-Storage section displays. This will help user to be able to focus on what should be investigate. Now it's only plain text and hard to find where shou...
about 2 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Delivered

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