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Fault Analyzer for z/OS

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Additional security for Fault Analyzer history file entires

Provide extended security to limit a user's access to entries in a Fault Analyzer History File to include the CICS Transaction level.
almost 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

PD Tools Lookup view - lookupText method could it return other stuff than null

When using LookupView.lookupText() I would like to able to see if something is actually found, since if not a message should be shown. Currently the method only returns null? Instead of returning a string, maybe it could return the number of hits ...
almost 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

User exit to provide different History file name

I know that users can have Fault Analyzer write to a user history dataset using the IDIHIST DD statement, but I would like to be able to code a user exit which allows the customer instruct Fault Analyzer to use a specific history file when creatin...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Modify FA to use FORM setting (if present) on SYSUDUMP rather than only SYSOUT CLASS.

If the Fault Analyzer IDIREPRT DD statement is not present then FA is dynamically allocating the DD using the FORM setting as identified on the job card, rather than the SYSUDUMP DD.FA needs to use the SYSUDUMP FORM specification, if present, when...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Altering the user name, the user title, and the lock flag for a Fault entry

Possibilité de modifier les champs « user Name » , « user title » et « lock »,
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

Extend permitted subsitution strings in IDI.SIDISAM1(IDIGSVRJ)

As per the referenced PMR, the only permitted substitution string for the ISP_PROF_DSN parameter in the FAZ config file for the Problem Determination Tools Common Component is &USERID. (Ref. Chapter 32, IBM Fault Analyzer for z/OS - Users Guid...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

IDITRACE to be set globally

Specifying IDITRACE DD DUMMY in a JCL is a great option to trace Fault Analyzer behavior. Unfortunately it can not be set as a global option for FA but must be specified in selected jobs. For complex installations or production systems a global ID...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add new FA command to display dump data in ASCII

Fault Analyzer currently does not provide a command which allows switching dump data display between EBCDIC and ASCII. Currently, we need to set up a formatting exit. This is way too much trouble simply to have the data displayed in a different fo...
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Make available in RDz and PD-Tools studio own messages in Lookup

Make available in RDz and PD-Tools studio own messages in Lookup as like as in mainframe environment.
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Jes2 Messages included in IDIVSENU command repository

I suggest Jes2 messages be included in IDIVSENU repository for use by LOOKUP/LOOKC commands.
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

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