Using Fault Analyzer
- Introduction
- Real-time analysis
- The Fault Analyzer ISPF interface
  - Invoking the interface
  - The Fault Entry List display
  - Action-bar pull-down menus
  - Commands
    - CE
    - CICSD
    - CICSLINK
    - CICSSTG
    - COLS
    - COPY
    - CUROPTS
    - DISASM
    - DSECT
    - DUPS
    - EDIT
    - EXEC
    - FIND
    - IDISINFO
      The IDISINFO command can be used to invoke the interactive IDIS subsystem interface.
    - INFO
    - JCL
    - LOOKUP
    - MATCH
    - NEXT
    - NOTE
      This command can be used to create a user note or edit an existing user note in an edit session. It is only available from within the interactive report.
    - NOTELIST
    - PREV
    - QUIT
    - REFRESH
    - RESET
    - RPTFIND
    - RUNCHAIN
    - SHOW
    - SHOWFREE
    - SIT
    - STCK
    - STGMAP
    - VIEWS
  - Fault Analyzer preferences
  - BatchOpts
  - Viewing a saved report
  - Adding or removing blank lines
  - Adding or removing help text
  - Setting preferred formatting width
  - Displaying user-selected message or abend code explanations
  - Copying interactive displays to a file
  - Displaying product copyright, license, and version information
  - Deleting history file entries
    A fault entry can be deleted from a history file automatically or explicitly.
  - Locking fault entries
    You can lock a fault entry to prevent it from being deleted from a history file. You can specify the number of days that the fault entry is to remain locked, or specify that the lock never expires (the fault entry is never deleted). You can highlight locked fault entries in the Fault Entry List display. The optional IDIXLOCK exit can control fault entry flag values across an installation.
  - Viewing fault entry information
  - Viewing the fault entry duplicate history
  - Expanding and collapsing duplicate fault entries
  - Copying history file entries
  - Moving history file entries
    Use the M line command in the Fault Entry List display to move a fault entry.
  - Transmitting history file entries
    Use the X line command in the Fault Entry List display to XMIT a fault entry.
  - Packaging fault entries
  - Security considerations
  - Specifying 64-bit addresses
  - Using the interactive IDIS subsystem interface
    The IDIS Subsystem Information option displays the status of the IDIS subsystem.
  - Displaying options currently in effect
  - Recovering user notes
- Performing batch reanalysis
- Performing interactive reanalysis
- Performing CICS system abend dump analysis
- Formatting a CICS auxiliary trace data set
- Performing Java analysis
- The Fault Analyzer report
- Using non-ISPF interfaces to access Fault Analyzer history files

DSECT

This command, which is only available from within the interactive report, can be used to provide formatting of storage areas based on user-supplied assembler macro or DSECT copybooks.

Figure 1. Syntax

For information about how to use this command, see Mapping storage areas using DSECT information.

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