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Fault Analyzer for z/OS

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User exit capability in FAN plug-in

There is ability under ISPF in Fault Analyzer to use 'user exits' to format fault ids. F.e. User Formatting Exit which allows users to write customized formatted sections in Fault Analyzer reports. This functionality we use quite often in ISPF and...
over 7 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Provide STEPLIB information to control exit

Provide STEPLIB data to FA exits.
about 8 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Record relevant SYSDEBUG files when analyzing dump

Changes in programs participating in a dump, resulting in modifications to the SYSDEBUG, make those parts of the dump in raw form only. Attaching the relevant SYSDEBUGs when analyzing the minidump for the first time would prevent this.
over 8 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Integrate File Manager DB2 with Fault Analyzer

When analyzing the abend/dump using FaultAnalyzer/DB2, FM/DB2 cannot be directly invoked from FaultAnalyzer Panel to view/edit the corresponding DB2 table.
almost 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

In Fault Analyzer provide JCL exec parm value passed from JCL to program

When debugging batch abend, there is no PARMs passed from JCL displayed.
almost 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

FA Duplicate Abend Reporting - Not To Span Multiple Days

We need duplicate abends to be reported per day for a given abend, and not to span mulitple days.
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Stop dynamic allocation of “SILLY99.DATA88.SET77.NAME66.CHECK55” DSN

This bit of logic is part of an initial environment viability test Fault Analyzer does before starting the full ABEND event capture. Because sometimes the FA code is called in an ABEND situations where basic MVS functions are no longer viable in t...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 5 Delivered

Fault analyzer plugin to support multiple codepage display in parallel

The current minidump view in FAZ plugin is shown in HEX + 1 user selected codepage. We'd like FAZ to support to shown HEX + EBCDIC + 1 user selected codepage in the same view
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

FA should honor previous IEAVTABX pre-dump exit to suppress a dump and take no action.

Fault Analyzer's IDIXDCAP pre-dump exit currently processes abends and writes entries to its History file even if a previous pre-dump exit has chosen to suppress the dump. FA should honor a previous pre-dump's desire to suppress a dump by not taki...
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

enhancement to Fault Analyzer

When working with transaction dumps and transactions from system dumps, we would like to see:For VSAM, the most current record processed either formatted or dump format along with the dd name. Also the total counts of records read, written, altere...
almost 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered