Migrating from V7.1 to V8.1

This section provides information about changes to Fault Analyzer version 8.1 that you should be aware of if migrating from version 7.1.
  • BookManager® softcopy books are no longer shipped with Fault Analyzer. (They provided message and abend code explanations.) Instead, a VSAM file is populated with this information.
    Related changes include:
    • Allocating and populating the new VSAM cluster. For details, see Setting up the message and abend code explanation repository.
    • Deletion of the old cache data set to reclaim DASD space.
    • Removal of any IDICACHE suboption specifications of the DataSets option. These are likely to be found in the IDICNFxx parmlib member.
      Note: While the specification of this suboption is currently ignored, it should be removed to prevent possible error messages from being issued in the future.

      Once the IDICACHE data set is no longer required for use with Fault Analyzer V7.1, it can be deleted.

  • The Batch Report Tailoring user exit support has been removed.
    Related changes include:
    • Removal of any REPORT suboption specifications of the Exits option. These are likely to be found in the IDICNFxx parmlib member.
      Note: While the specification of this suboption is currently ignored, it should be removed to prevent possible error messages from being issued in the future.
    • If previously, extra source lines had been requested for real-time or batch reanalysis reports by setting the REP.EXTRA_SOURCE_LINES field to a positive value using a Batch Report Tailoring user exit, then you now instead need to use the Detail option (see Detail) or the Analysis Control user exit (see Analysis Control user exit).
  • The high-level qualifier of the default recovery fault recording data set name has changed. Previously, this was IDIDUMP, now it is IDIRFRHQ. If your installation relies on the default name, then it might be necessary to change security server profiles to ensure that users are still able to allocate data sets with the new name (see Managing recovery fault recording data set access).
  • The NoDup(ImageFast(0)) default option has changed to NoDup(ImageFast(5)).

    If IMS™ fast duplicate detection is not desired, then it is necessary to specify the NoDup(ImageFast(0)) option. For details, see NoDup.

  • The IDIS subsystem PARM field options UPDINDEX and IMAGEFAST have become defaults.

    If you don't want these as defaults, then new options have been provided to override the defaults. For details, see Using the Fault Analyzer IDIS subsystem.

  • If a version of Fault Analyzer prior to V8.1 is used in parallel with V8.1, then one of these situations applies:
    • Do not use AUTO-managed history files (default for new PDSE history files with V8.1, or set using the IDIUTIL batch utility SetMinFaultEntries control statement).
    • Install the applicable compatibility PTF for the older version first, as per the following:
      Version
      PTF
      V7.1
      UK30778