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Fault Analyzer for z/OS

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FA: Enhance Navigation in Storage Display in Interactive Mode

In interactive mode with ISPF the navigation with display of storage should be enhanced: Better structuring: FA should take into account the boundary of the storage segments and should restrict scrolling to the segment, where the currently display...
almost 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

include DB2 SQLCODES in the determination of normal duplicates

fault analyzer does currently consider two different sqlcodes as a normal duplicate
about 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow or deny IDIREPRT similarly to the parameter exclude from IDICNF00

Hello We want to be able allow or deny IDIREPRT for some jobs or stcs similarly to the parameters exclude/include from IDICNF00. We want to keep the historical reports, so Fault Analyzer should be kept running, so no turning off. Adding the DD IDI...
over 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Fault Analyzer event summary enhancement

We would like to have direct access via hotlink to the working storage areas for each application program in the event summary for transaction dumps and PG link levels for system dumps. This area should be formatted if the source is available, or ...
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

exit or option to suppress SVC dump if CIC transaction dump was taken

One of the product teams at DST would like to suppress SVC dumps within CICS unless it is detected that a transaction dump has not been taken. Currently transaction dumps may be suppressed by FAULT ANAYLZER which we use within our cics regions whe...
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow option to move IDI messages to a CICS TDQ for Fault Analyzer

As Fault Analyzer deployed to our CICS regions, we have found it to be a bit "noisey". An option to move various Fault Analyzer messages to a TDQ just for Fault Analyzer would help reduce the complexity of the system log.
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add FA/ISPF Point-and-Shoot's functionality to View mode of Fault Entry

Enhance Fault Analyzer's ISPF interface to allow for Point-and-Shoot functionality without Interactive Reanalysis
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

For Fault Analyzer: Secure FA id at all published IDI0066I messages

We use FA id to get full information about CICS abends to secure action being provided. We monitor IDI0002I/3I and IDI0066I messages and at some lack of FA id for IDI0066I we are not able to get a reference for every abend to get the full picture ...
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Refresh automatic Fault Analyzer Plugin PDTOOLS

the idea would be after the opening of a log file, have a way to refresh the view or the history file as the monitor JES
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

enhance Lookup view to provide more functionality

We have as an examlple MVS7Quicref that looks like RDz Lookup view. In RDz you can dubbleclick on a message and right click to show it in Lookup. But this is not true with IBM's PLI compiler messages and for that matter the PLI language reference....
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration