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How to Troubleshoot when your WebSphere MQ queue manager is creating FDCs
Often, when a user is having problems with WebSphere MQ one of the first questions asked by the IBM MQ support team is "Are there any FDC files?" The terms FFST and FDC are sometimes used synonymously. These are files written by MQ to record errors and dump information about what occurred at the time MQ encountered the error. FFST stands for First Failure Support Technology, and is technology within WebSphere MQ designed to create detailed reports with information about the current state of a queue manager together with historical... [More]
Tags: manager fdc queue ffst websphere qmgr mq wmq error ffstsummary |
Useful fields to search on in MQ FDC files (First Failure Symptom Report)
I was asked today if there is any document that describes the contents of the FDC files (First Failure Symptom Report) that are written by WebSphere MQ to record potentially important events. These files are for use by support to help research problems and different FDCs will contain different kinds of data and control blocks. This might change at any time depending on what the development team decides they would like to see for that particular event (Probe). Because of this, the content of the FDC files is not published. But looking at... [More]
Tags: mq diagnostic websphere wmq error symptom fdc failure |
