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Fault Analyzer for z/OS

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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 7 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.
over 7 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.
over 7 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 9 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...
about 9 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 9 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 9 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 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

support of dynamically called IDISNAP interface in COBOL DLL

Currenly IBM Fault Analyzer does not support the IDISNAP interface be dynamically called from a COBOL DLL. When called dynamically it leads to error message "CEE3550S DLL IDISNAP does not contain a CEESTART ". To use the IDISNÄP interface from a C...
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Display memory content in the dump with UTF-8 encoding scheme

UTF-8 encoded data is processed directly in our CICS application program. When analysing the dump via Fault Analyzer, UTF-8 data cannot be seen in both HEX and Character formats.
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

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