Tools and techniques for troubleshooting
This section describes the tools and techniques available for troubleshooting problems with z/OSMF.
- Verifying your workstation with the environment checker
To work with z/OSMF, your web browser and workstation require a number of settings for proper functioning. z/OSMF includes an environment checker tool to help you verify these settings. The environment checker tool inspects your web browser and workstation operating system for compliance with z/OSMF requirements and recommended settings. - Finding information about z/OSMF
z/OSMF includes an About page to display the product version details that can be useful to IBM® Support during the diagnosis of a problem. - Working with z/OSMF messages
z/OSMF records messages from the product interface, from tasks performed by z/OSMF users, and from programs running on the z/OS host system. Because of the various layers of functions involved in typical z/OSMF operations, locating a particular message might require you to check more than one location. - Working with z/OSMF runtime log files
During normal operations, z/OSMF collects its runtime data (log messages and trace messages) in log files. z/OSMF runtime data is created on the server (server side) or sent to the server by the client (client side). Both types of messages are written to the z/OSMF runtime log files. - Examples of working with z/OSMF runtime logs
For your reference, this topic describes the attributes of the z/OSMF log files that are created at runtime.
Parent topic: Troubleshooting problems