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  • 1.  Analyzing of FDC files

    Posted Tue October 18, 2022 10:39 AM
    Hi all,

    I am back into the MQ space and wanted to know if IBM developed a tool to analyze FDC files already?
    If not, what would be the eye catching things one should look for in a FDC file?

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    Emile Kearns
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  • 2.  RE: Analyzing of FDC files

    Posted Tue October 18, 2022 11:48 AM
    I think it is yet not available. I would also be interested to know if there are any available.

    But the FDC file prints the header info, which is very useful info for admins to learn exactly what caused the issue.
    look at Probe section of the FFST report and it helps.

    Sometimes it is difficult to know, but MQ and QMgr error logs also help.



    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                             |
| IBM MQ First Failure Symptom Report                                         |
| =========================================                                   |
|                                                                             |
                     |
| Vendor            :- IBM                                                    |
| O/S Registered    :- 1 (libmqmcs_r.so) Installed                            |
| Data Path         :- /var/mqm                                               |
| Installation Path :- /opt/mqm                                             |
| Installation Name :- Installation1    (5)                                   |
| License Type      :- Production                                             |
| Probe Id          :- CO373099                                               |
                                              |
| Program Name      :- amqrmppa                                               |
| Arguments         :- -m ABCDT01                                             |
| Standard Streams  :- 0 1 2                                                  |
| Addressing mode   :- 64-bit                                                 |
| LANG              :- en_US.UTF-8                                            |
| Process           :- 7708                                                   |
| Process(Thread)   :- 18875                                                  |
| Thread            :- 77766    RemoteResponder                               |
                                                      |
| Major Errorcode   :- rrcE_PROTOCOL_ERROR                                    |
| Minor Errorcode   :- OK                                                     |
| Probe Type        :- MSGAMQ9504                                             |
| Probe Severity    :- 2                                                      |
| Probe Description :- AMQ9504E: A protocol error was detected for channel    |
|   '????'.                                                                   |
| FDCSequenceNumber :- 0                                                      |
| Comment1          :- ????                                                   |
| Comment2          :- Detected multiple key resets                           |
|                                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+​


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    om prakash
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  • 3.  RE: Analyzing of FDC files
    Best Answer

    Posted Tue October 18, 2022 07:05 PM

    Hi Emile,

    There is the ffstsummary tool that comes with MQ. As for analyzing FDC files, they are intended for IBM Service, so not sure how someone without the MQ source code could really analyze one. As om prakash says, the header is designed to help you search for APARs with the probe ID, and ffstsummary pulls those out for you too.

    Try it out and see what you think. Is that what you needed?

    Cheers,
    Morag

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    Morag Hughson
    MQ Technical Education Specialist
    MQGem Software Limited
    Website: https://www.mqgem.com
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  • 4.  RE: Analyzing of FDC files

    Posted Tue April 04, 2023 03:57 AM

    Hi Morag,

    This definitely helped. I just thought one could find more out there, but thanks for this



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    Emile Kearns
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