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Fault Analyzer for z/OS

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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.
over 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...
almost 12 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...
almost 12 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
about 12 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.
about 12 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.
about 12 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...
about 12 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.
over 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...
about 15 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Enable Batch Reanalysis to provide a Full CICS trace

I can see the CICS internal trace table through Interactive Analysis, but I cannot see it when performing batch reanalysis?
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration