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Fault Analyzer for z/OS

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Add an exit to allow using different history files

Please an exit which will direct Fault Analyzer to write to a specific history file, based on criteria such as Job name, submitting user ID, abend code, etc. This will allow different history files to be used without requiring users to have to cha...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Fault Analyzer needs to format out Handle Table Entries set for HANDLE CONDITION / HANDLE AID / HANDLE ABEND

We need the capability to view formatted HTB (Handle Tables). These are part of the PG domain. Each time a program issues a HANDLE CONDITION, HANDLE AID, or HANDLE ABEND, entries get put in the a handle table.
almost 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Limit the number of items in a view

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. Is there an as yet undocumented "Depth" parameter to limit the view to a specific nu...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

FA report of "Hexadecimal notation dump storage"

This customer , big steel company in Japan is using FA V9 in z/OS 1.10 And they encounter the problem when they see FA report of "Hexadecimal notation dump storage".The problem is that single-byte KATAKANA characters become garbage data and they c...
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Journal des utilisations du produit FA

connaitre le nombre d'utilisateur connectés sur une journée
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Fault Analyzer : exit EQAUEDAT to fill panel

Add an option and a customized panel to have the dataset name provided by exit EQAUEDAT (or LISTING) used instead of the LISTDSN variable taken from the ISPF profile.
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Fault Analyzer so that XFACILIT general resource SAF checks occur first

Please enhance Fault Analyzer so that the XFACILIT SAF checks for history and dump dataset occur FIRST then if they do not provide access the DATASET SAF checks will occur.
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

VSAM access with RLS=NRI does not show in FA's report

When we are using Fault Analyzer to investigate a VSAM RLS open problem in batch, we found that in the the dump created by the batch the file open status shows all status(INPUT, OUTPUT & I/O) for a VSAM RLS file. After testing, we found the fa...
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Modify Fault Analyzer to set a default View from the IDI.SIDIVIEW file

Customer would like to be able to set up a system-wide view that can be used as their default. They would like to be able to set this default view in the IDI.SIDIVIEW file.
about 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Find in Fault Analyzers views

When using Faault Analyzer in 3270 mode it is possible to issue the Find cammand to search for specific strings.When using the Fault Analyzer perspecive in RDz the views are lacking the Find funktion (the Find is greyed out). Enabing Find in the F...
over 14 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration