Summary of changes
This edition of the documentation provides information applicable to Z Abend Investigator Version 16 Release 1. Changes to the latest
release are indicated by a |
change bar in the left margin of the page in the PDF format of the documentation.
Latest service:
For information about the problems that have been addressed
in each PTF, see Latest Z Abend Investigator Service
Information.
February 2026 (V16R1M3 PTF TFA0028)
This edition of the documentation contains minor clarifications and corrections and
includes the following new support:
- An option to automatically route the generated batch reanalysis job to the original z/OS system where the abend occurred has been provided. For details, see Batch reanalysis options.
- A sample REXX utility, HFZSBLKO, is available in HFZ.SHFZSAM1. It attempts to convert Enterprise PL/I compiler listings generated with the BLKOFF option into a format that simulates the required NOBLKOFF option, facilitating usage with HFZLANGX. For details, see HFZSBLKO.
- A new option, BindExclude, has been added. Use the BindExclude option to specify one or more module names to exclude from binder calls. For more details, see BindExclude.
- A progress display has been added for the FIND string ALL command. For details, see Dump Storage display FIND ALL command progress.
- A new section, Compiler listings and side file access requirements, has been added.
October 2025 (V16R1M2 PTF TFA0026)
This edition of the documentation contains minor clarifications and corrections.
June 2025 (V16R1M1 PTF TFA0024)
This edition of the documentation contains minor clarifications and corrections.
April 2025 (V16R1M0, refresh)
This edition of the documentation contains minor clarifications and corrections, as
well as the following changes relative to the previous edition:
- Z Abend Investigator provides a Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) Code extension client that works in conjunction with the Zowe Explorer VS Code Extension. The HCL Z Abend Investigator Microsoft Visual Studio Code extension includes an intuitive interface to help developers analyze and fix application and system failures. See Z Abend Investigator on VS Code.
March 2025 (V16R1M0, first edition)
This edition of the documentation contains minor clarifications and corrections, as
well as the following changes relative to the previous edition:
- Support for Java™ JVM versions, up to and including version 17. For details, see Adding the Snap class to the application class path and Using the Z Abend Investigator Java wrapper utility.
- A new "@" command has been provided for the Dump Storage display. For details, see Displaying storage locations.
- Scroll and cursor positions are now maintained when using the PREV and NEXT commands from the Dump Storage display. For details, see NEXT and PREV.
- The following sections have been added:
- The following existing topics have been moved to a new section entitled Customizing the Java environment
- New messages have been added:
- Z Abend Investigator now provides a CICS web services transaction. See CICS web services transaction.
- Z Abend Investigator XDUMPs have been enabled by default. For details, see Extended minidump data set (XDUMP).
- Support for spilling pages to the XDUMP data set when MaxMinidumpPages is exceeded has been added. For details, see Extended minidump data set (XDUMP).
- A new column, Spilled, has been added to the Fault Entry List display. For details, see Available columns.
- A general method for testing XDUMP configuration has been provided in Verifying the use of XDUMPs.
- A new option, UnreferencedPagesValid, has been provided. For details, see UnreferencedPagesValid.
- Support for program names up to 32 characters in length has been added:
- A new field, ENV.POF_LONG_PGM_NAME, has been added. For details, see ENV - Common exit environment information.
- A new field, LST.LONG_PROGRAM_NAME, has been added. For details, see LST - Compiler Listing Read user exit parameter list.
- A new column, Program_(long) has been added to the Fault Entry List display. For details, see Available columns.
- A new section, HFZS subsystem requirements for deletion of migrated tightly-coupled associated dump data sets, has been added.
- The Fault Entry Refresh exit prompt display has changed. For details, see Refresh processing.
- Information about adding CICS abend codes in the HFZHUSRM member has been provided. For details, see User-defined abend code explanations.
- A new section, Special consideration for 2GB-4GB addresses, has been added.
- A new options field, PREVEXIT, has been added to the HFZOPTLM configuration-options module. For details, see Suppressing HFZXDCAP real-time analysis if prior exit RC=8 (PREVEXIT).
- Support for the use of a new DDname, HFZSYSLB, with the DSECT command and the HFZPDSCU utility has been added. For details, see HFZSYSLB concatenation.