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Workspace Fault Analyzer for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 24, 2015

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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 the address space.

However, each run attempted does show up as a failure in our security report. We request IBM redo this check to avoid the security error. You may want to review how SDSF does it security checking without raising errors.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 8, 2017

    Support is available in Fault Analyzer V14 which became Generally Available 8th September 2017. Please consult Chapter 17 of the User's Guide.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 16, 2016

    Hi James,

    As you have said FA needs to make a RACF call to ensure a viable environment for analysis. You have also said that SDSF is performing security checks that Vanguard is not picking up on/recording so please could you provide some more details on these ? Presumably these are not data set access request so are they another RACF class that Vanguard is configured to ignore ? It might be possible to change our RACF validity check to another RACF class but my immediate concern here is that in so doing we cause security logging for other customers that are currently not seeing anything. Can Vanguard be configured to ignore this specific data set name ?

    Adrian

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 7, 2015

    Hi James,

    I'm sorry about the lack of information - I neglected to add a particular "tag" that mean my update text didn't flow back to you. My update was as follows:

    Hi,

    Please can you provide some more details on what is actually being logged and what your security product is ? I ask as the RACROUTE call made for this data set has LOG=NONE specified. I think ACF2, for example, has the ability to effectively overwrite this LOG=NONE setting which is therefore obviously out of our control.

    Thanks

    Adrian Simcock

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 3, 2015

    I see the status is marked as "Need More Information". However, in reviewing the RFE I do not see what infromation you need.

  • 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

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