Overview of IBM Fault Analyzer for z/OS
IBM Fault Analyzer for z/OS® gathers information about an
application and the surrounding environment at the time of an abnormal
end (abend), providing you with the valuable information you need to
develop and test your applications.
After analyzing information about your application and its
environment, Fault Analyzer generates an analysis report that describes
the problem in terms of application code. This means that you are not
forced to interpret a low-level system dump or system-level error
messages. The reason for the abend is made available to you sooner and
with less effort.
Fault Analyzer for z/OS features:
- The analysis engine: The result of the collective debugging experience
of leading IBM software architects, developers and testers, the analysis
engine is the core of Fault Analyzer for z/OS. The engine provides
automatic analysis when the application fails, application-initiated
analysis for the program SNAP interface and user-initiated fault
reanalysis.
- Real-time abend analysis: When a program fails, Fault Analyzer
for z/OS activates automatically from an appropriate exit of the
processing environment and records details about the abend in a fault
history file.
- Fault reanalysis: Sometimes a real-time abend analysis isn?t
enough. With this feature, you can extract more information about a
failure. You can even choose whether to initiate batch fault reanalysis
or interactive reanalysis.
- Fault history files: These extended, partitioned data sets
contain information about the faults analyzed by Fault Analyzer for
z/OS.
Supported application environments
Fault Analyzer for z/OS supports applications running under
z/OS® and OS/390® in the following environments:
- COBOL
- PL/I
- Assembler
- C/C++
- Language Environment
- UNIX System Services
- CICS®
- IMS
- DB2®
- WebSphere®
- WebSphere MQ
- Java™
See IBM
Fault Analyzer for z/OS for further information.