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Workspace Fault Analyzer for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 1, 2012

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Storage Violation Analysis in Fault Analyzer

Customers Pain Points
- Many developers runs together their CICS online applications on Test system for developing and maintaining.
- While running, his/her transaction is abnormally terminated with Storage Violation.
- To find out who cause his/her transaction be terminated, user looks up the FA report.
- But, FA does not show.
- And, to make bad thing worse, it is hard to re-produce the same situation, because developers on different organization run their application on their schedule.
- Quoting customer's expression, "A serious Killer transaction runs on CICS, but it is hard to catch"

New function would provide overall synopsis first for application programmers to understand related transaction, program and memory areas. Information of corrupted memory should be provided. And tasks/programs might caused or changed that corrupted memory might be provided.

In conclusion, help application programmer know the memory area of problem and fix it's variable length or subscript of arrays. Or some initialization.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 23, 2017

    Storage violation occurs in current versions/maintenance levels of FA.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Development Tooling
    Product - IBM Fault Analyzer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - IBM Fault Analyzer

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 21, 2013

    2 new features have been added to Fault Analyzer V12 (PTF UK98036)and V13 (GA code) to assist with storage violation analysis.

    1) When Fault Analyzer performs any transaction analysis details on the storage areas of all other concurrently running tasks are captured and displayed in the interactive storage summary panel.

    2) A new Fault Analyzer XEIIN GLUE can be enabled to validate the storage accounting area (SAA) for the current task at an EXEC CICS RETURN statement.  If an overlay is detected either a transaction or system dump can be taken.  These dumps may, in conjunction with item (1), assist the programmer in diagnosing the overlay.

    These features are described in the Fault Analyzer's users guide.

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