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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Fault Analyzer for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 15, 2015

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Flexible Alignment Storage Display

Currently FA aligns its storage display at starting addresses which are multiples of 16. This is often unconvenient:

Sometimes application data is not properly aligned:

- address pointers not on word boundery are not point-and-shootable

- bad aligned fullwords spread over two blocks of 8 hexa digits or even over two display lines

Sometimes I wish to change alignment of the display to ease visually inspect repating data patterns in storage.

I propose to always (or by user option) left align the display of storage to the start address of the requested storage address (even when it is an uneven address).

Idea priority High
  • 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
    |     Jun 18, 2015

    Changing the current alignment processing is currently not a deliverable enhancement however I believe this could be achieved using a formatting user exit with the LIST DSECT command. I can send you the REXX source to my sample LIST EXEC if you would like it but as an illustration calling EXEC LIST 19832005 displays the following:


    19832005 +0000 DSECT ALIGN
    19832005 +0000 C8D4D5E3 D4C14040 404040CF 1D2CEA21 ALIGNF01 DS 4F
    19832015 +0010 7A13E800 00000000 00000000 00000000 ALIGNF02 DS 4F
    19832025 +0020 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ALIGNF03 DS 4F
    19832035 +0030 00000000 00000000 0000001C 02005D06 ALIGNF04 DS 4F
    19832045 +0040 0D800000 00000000 00000017 95100000 ALIGNF05 DS 4F
    19832055 +0050 80800000 00000000 000000CF 1D2CEC24 ALIGNF06 DS 4F
    19832065 +0060 36E07200 00000000 00000000 00000000 ALIGNF07 DS 4F
    19832075 +0070 00000000 00000000 000000CF 1D2CEA23 ALIGNF08 DS 4F
    19832085 +0080 AEDF6800 00000000 00000000 000001FA ALIGNF09 DS 4F
    19832095 +0090 1E598000 000001FA C13B8000 00000500 ALIGNF10 DS 4F

    Adrian Simcock

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 15, 2015

    Attachment (Use case): Example: STCK value at 1647910C: Display is spread over 2 lines.

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