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Fault Analyzer for z/OS

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FA to warn on source mismatch if NOLIST option was on

FA usually does a check if a compiler listing matches the module in storage or not. This is done by comparing the last few instructions in te listing with the last instructions in the loaded module. But FA can't do this check for COBOL if the NOLI...
about 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

FA Eclipse: Show active filters in Fault Entry List

Hello IBM, please add a header-item in the Fault Entry List, which shows, which filters are active (and maybe to disable/enable them). An idea, how this could be done very intuitive, can be seen in IBM's CICS Explorer.
almost 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Delivered

FA plugin must automatically add default hsitory files to a system

When a user adds a system entry to the Fault Analyser Objects View he needs to add the default history file dataset manually.This is a problem for users who do not know the default history files on all the systems. FA Plugin should provide a metho...
almost 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

User defined messages in Fault Analyzer IDz/Eclipse plug-in

There is a way to use user defined message explanations, abend code explanations and program descriptions in FAN under ISPF environment. Our shop been using IDz for some time already, and more and more people moving into this tooling now. Therefor...
over 1 year ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 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...
about 6 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

FA: Display register's full content: all 64 bits

Modern Compilers (e.g. Enterprise Cobol V5.2) and modern assembler programs are using the full width of GPRs to do 64-bit interger arithmethic or by taking advantage of the high-word facility.After an abend, only the right half (low-word) of the r...
over 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

Request to add WTO message extraction

This is a request to add WTO message extraction when using the IDIXCEE invocation exit.
over 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

FA - Add BEAR display for Batch Dump Analysis

Batch abend analysis in FA does not show the BEAR (Breaking Event Address Register) in Batch-Dumps. The BEAR is available in many z/OS (SDWA, ESPIE, RTM) diagnostic control blocks. Currently BEAR is only shown in FA with CICS transaction dumps. Bu...
over 5 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

FA: link to Storage Area for Data fields at time of error

In the "Main Report" tab you can have "Data field values at time of abend:" The listed Data items may be truncated.Instead of showing here the complete value of the Data item we prefere to change the Data Item Name to a link. The Target of the Lin...
over 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 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...
over 7 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

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