WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998039 Product Name: AIX FTP Product Release#: 4.x Vendor Name: IBM Title: FTP Security (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): AIX FTP allows users to CD to a parent directory (cd ..). If the user can cd to a parent directory the user can download or upload files to the directory. The root directory can be accessed with multiple cd.. commands. To enable outside FTP access AIX has anonymous FTP support. Currently the FTP support for anonymous users supports only one public directory and one user logon. This support does restrict the ability to cd to parent directories; however, this allows anonymous FTP users to see, download and delete any FTP'ed data in the public directory. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Our commpany uses outside services for data entry. This includes data that we do not want anyone to see, copy or delete. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) We will have to use a 3rd party FTP product or use another platform for FTP. Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Allow the ability to restrict FTP commands on a user by user basis for security. Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) AIX is a very robust operating system. Why must we use another vendor's FTP product to provide better security than IBM? Company Name: Olan Mills, Inc. Author Name: T. D. McCallie Author Title: Author Address: 4325 Ammicola Hwy. Chattanooga, Tenn. 37406 Author E-mail: dmccallie@olanmills.com Telephone: (423) 629-8531 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.9 8 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 8/8/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998002 Product Name: All Product Release#: Vendor Name: All Title: IBM recommend common partition shutdown keyword. (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): With the Dynamic partition came the huge increase in the number of vendors requiring their own partition(s). Unfortunately, no two vendors can agree on a shutdown command. Between END, EOJ, KILL, TERMINATE, QUIESCE, SHUT, SHUTDOWN, STOP, QUIT, CLOSEDOWN, ADAEND and SOMEONESHOOTMEPLEASE. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Our operators have decided that the Power flush command is the universal shutdown. They don't IPL often enough to remember all the different keywords. We use a REXX shutdown procedure but whenever a partition isn't shutdown in a civilised manner, the Flush command rules. IBM should present 1 keyword as it's recommendation. It would still be a vendor's choice whether or not to follow the recommendation, but a little guidance here certainly couldn't hurt. Vendors using a different keyword could add the recommended keyword to their product without compatibility concerns. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: Dillon Companies, INC. Author Name: David Peel Author Title: Sr. Systems Programmer Author Address: 3980 Quebec St. #151 / Denver, CO. 80207 Author E-mail: dpeel@dillon.com Telephone: (303) 393-4028 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 2.0 77 26 32 15 4 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/24/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998003 Product Name: BIM-Alert Product Release#: Vendor Name: BIM Title: BIM-Alert Set permanent options by CICS region (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Change Alert/CICS to provide control of the permanentsecurity options on a region-by-region basis in an MRO environment. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Not every CICS region in an MRO envrionment has the same requirement for security. By allowing the customer to turn off certain options in a certain CICS region, great performance benefits may be obtained in the form of lower CPU use. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: Accredited Computer Services Author Name: Richard Szabo Author Title: Author Address: Author E-mail: acsgcc@ibm.net Telephone: (216) 263-3972 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.4 7 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998004 Product Name: Alert/CICS Product Release#: Vendor Name: BIM Title: BIM-Alert ISC support in BIM-Alert/CICS (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Provide ISC support Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Will give the customer more effective use of Alert across a multi-cpu environment and the vendor will receive extra license fees. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: Accredited Computer Services Author Name: Richard Szabo Author Title: Author Address: Author E-mail: acsgcc@ibm.net Telephone: (216) 263-3972 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.7 3 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998005 Product Name: BIMCNSOL Product Release#: Current Vendor Name: B. I. Moyle Title: BIMCONSOL - PAGE FORWARD FROM INITIAL SCREEN (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): On initial entry into 'DLOG' transaction allow scanning forward - (backward only now) Hardcopy file is a wrap around file Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Would tell you immediately if what you are looking for is still on the current hardcopy file. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Takes longer to determine if you have to go to some other source to see what happened on the console. Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Insert line on display stating end-of-file then continue displaying Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Author Name: Russ Bucholz Author Title: Technical Services Rep. Author Address: 200 Berteau, Elmhurst, IL 60126 Author E-mail: s02sys@AOL.COM Telephone: (630) 833-8200 ext. 3882 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998006 Product Name: CA90s - DYNAM/B Product Release#: 9705 Vendor Name: Computer Associates Title: Change, or better document, install of CA90s and DYNAM/B - VM (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Install of CA90s and DYNAM/B for VM are interdependent and doc is incomplete Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) It will save System Programmers time and save CA Technical Support from repeated calls Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) I'll have to waste more time calling CA for the next client install. Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) A. or B. ---- Prefer A. A. Have install of CA90s not depend on any product. B. Create short doc or update doc to detail install interdependencies Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: Dowling Associates Author Name: Kevin Beauregard Author Title: Associate Author Address: 445 Douglas Ave, Suite 1505, Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 Author E-mail: KevinB@DowlingAssoc.com Telephone: (407) 865-9920 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.0 10 0 3 4 3 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/24/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998008 Product Name: CA-Librarian Product Release#: 4.1 Vendor Name: CA Title: CA-LIBR Comparator increase capacity past 10,000 records (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Increase capacity of Comparitor function presently limited to 10,000 records Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) This change will help our organization better compare the results of changes in source programs. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Remove limit Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: Accredited Computer SErvices Author Name: Richard Szabo Author Title: Author Address: Author E-mail: acsgcc@ibm.net Telephone: (216) 263-3972 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.2 12 1 1 9 1 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/24/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998009 Product Name: CA-SORT Product Release#: Vendor Name: CA Title: CA-SORT needs full 31-bit support (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Add 31-bit data storage in CA-SORT Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Much better performance for large sorts. CA-SORT 8.2 does not allow internal datastorage above 16-meg. The vendor has allowed some sortphases to reside above the line, but internal sort data must still reside below the line Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Use 31-bit getvis or a dataspace Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) ASAP Company Name: Accredited Computer Services Author Name: Rich Szabo Author Title: Author Address: 4780 Hinkley Industrial PKWY Cleveland OH 44109 Author E-mail: acsgcc@ibm.net Telephone: (216) 263-3972 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.3 26 0 10 13 3 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998010 Product Name: Dynam/T VM Product Release#: 2.3 Vendor Name: Computer Associates Title: Support for DYNEOVX exit for multiple volume O/P tapes (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Dynam/T doesn't support multi-volume output tapes. On SQL/DS (now DB2 for VSE and VM) this causes truncated archives with no warning message. Dynam/T includes an unsupported and undocumented feature (DYNEOVX) providing support for multi-volume tapes. CA should fully support and endorse DYNEOVX. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) DB2 VM customers who want the automated tape handling Dynam/T provides need to be able to depend on the output tapes being created correctly. It is not reasonable to expect customers to depend on an unsupported and undocumented patch to provide such basic functionality. All Dynam/T VM customers who use DB2 for VM will benefit from this fix. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) We will be forced to switch from our current tape handling package (Dynam/T) to one that performs correctly and reliably, like Sterling Software's VM Tape. We have to be able to depend on our database archives for recovery purposes. If CA doesn't have confidence enough in DYNEOVX to support and endorse it then we can't depend on it either. Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: Prince George's Co. Public Sch Author Name: Sherry Jones Author Title: DBA Author Address: 14201 School Ln., Room 140; Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 Author E-mail: sherrylj@erols.com Telephone: (301) 952-6258 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.9 7 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/24/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998011 Product Name: TCPIP for VSE Product Release#: Vendor Name: Connectivity Systems Title: TCP/IP for VSE add full tn3270 support (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Add full tn3270e support Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Lack of this feature limits my company's ability to use telnet. My company's audit requirements include a one-for-one correspondence between IP address and VTAM terminal ID. tn3270e allows specifications of the LU name at the 3270 client. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) 6 months Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Unacceptable - have the user define a separate tn3270 pool for each client Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: Accredited Computer Services Author Name: Rich Szabo Author Title: Author Address: Author E-mail: acsgcc@ibm.net Telephone: (216) 263-3972 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.4 27 0 0 13 13 1 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998012 Product Name: TCP/IP for VSE Product Release#: 1.3 Vendor Name: Connectivity Systems, Inc. Title: TCPIP add SNMP agent for network monitoring (Brief, one line accurate summary of change desired - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Describe in greater detail): Require SNMP agent for network monitoring. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case. Do not reword problem statement above. How will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.) Ability to bring VSE into the SNMP network monitoring fold. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) We will have to develop outselfs other means of monitoring events on the VSE system from a central network monitoring station. Solution: (both desireable & undesireable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Implementation of the SNMP protocol in TCP/IP for VSE Classification: (Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: Certified Grocers Midwest Author Name: Scott Mitchell Author Title: Consultant Author Address: 1 Certified Drive, Hodgkins, IL 60525 Author E-mail: smitchel@certisaver.com Telephone: () 708-579-2100 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * Save as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator or registration desk. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.8 37 0 6 16 15 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/27/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998013 Product Name: TCP/IP Product Release#: 1.3 Vendor Name: CSI/IBM Title: TCPIP add DNS lookup (Brief, one line accurate summary of change desired - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Describe in greater detail): The current DNS name lookup only looks at static local tables, it needs to access external DNS servers. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case. Do not reword problem statement above. How will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.) Any site refferenced by a VSE job must have the address hard-coded locally. As those site address change, jobs fail until research and table updating is performed. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (both desireable & undesireable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Add external DNS lookup if site name is not found in local tables. This is not the same as being a DNS host. Classification: (Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or drop the product, if solution not provided) ASAP Company Name: Volusia County Schools Author Name: Tony Thigpen Author Title: Manager, Technical Suppor Author Address: 200 N. Clara Ave, DeLand, FL Author E-mail: tthigpen@mail.volusia.k12.fl.us Telephone: (904) 734-7198x4544 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * Save as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator or registration desk. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/24/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998014 Product Name: VSE/ESA Librarian Product Release#: Vendor Name: IBM Title: LIBR Allow an exclude facility on generic copy (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Add an exclude operand with a generic copy operation For example: COPY ABC*.PHASE EXCLUDE=ABCD*.PHASE which translates to copy everything starting with 'ABC' but not starting with 'ABCD' Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) When doing a massive library copy when doing a monthly move from test to production, weneed greatercontrol of the members being copied. versions of programs should not be copied aswell as programs used in test environments only. Also when creating libraries to move a product to a client, we need away to move just the part of the product he bought, using fewer COPY instructions Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) ASAP Company Name: Hilan Ltd Author Name: Avihu Gershoni Author Title: Author Address: Israel Author E-mail: avihu@hilan.co.il Telephone: (---) +972-3-6383343 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.8 59 0 1 47 11 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998015 Product Name: VSAM Product Release#: 6.1 Vendor Name: IBM Title: VSAM Assist in determining attributes (CYL/tracks) and set parameters (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): When receiving requests for new files, how to determine imbed/noimbed, replicate/noreplicate, etc. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) 50% Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Avoid redefining files after initial definition. Increase accuracy, functionality Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) establish a method to select (for user) or for VSAM to recoggnize attributes use by file Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: Piper Jaffray Companyies Author Name: Charlie Johnson Author Title: Author Address: Author E-mail: cjohnson06@piperjaffray.com Telephone: (612) 342-5683 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) -0.1 44 0 0 2 34 8 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998016 Product Name: VTAM Product Release#: 4.2 Vendor Name: IBM Title: VTAM Move IOBUF from 24-SVA to 24bit partition getvis (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): IO grows too much and causesVSCR Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) I can increase network Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Cannot expand network Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: Downling & Assoc. Author Name: Dan Askew Author Title: Author Address: 46 Ravenna Rd Author E-mail: DANA@DOWLINGASSOC.com Telephone: (330) 656-1136 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.1 56 9 8 23 14 1 0 1 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 8/8/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998017 Product Name: VSE/ESA Product Release#: Vendor Name: IBM Title: Combine multi-volume manuals into 1 book on CD (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Manuals were split into multiple volumes because of bulk. There is no longer any benefit to splitting these books, the CD still weighs the same. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Simplify searches. Prevents opening the wrong volume. A single book for VSE Messages and Codes on CD makes sense. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: Dillon Companies, INC. Author Name: David Peel Author Title: Sr. Systems Programmer Author Address: 3980 Quebec St. #151 / Denver, CO. 80207 Author E-mail: dpeel@dillon.com Telephone: (303) 393-4028 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.3 73 3 15 53 2 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 8/8/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998018 Product Name: VSE/REXX Product Release#: Vendor Name: IBM Title: Allow execution of REXX programs from SYSIPT (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): REXX program source must be cataloged into a PROC before execution. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) The requirement for cataloging REXX source just adds an extra step to each change / test cycle. Cataloging a program once, when it's complete, would save time. It would be nice to be able to submit the REXX statements as SYSIPT data following the EXEC REXX statement. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: Dillon Companies, INC. Author Name: David Peel Author Title: Sr. Systems Programmer Author Address: 3980 Quebec St. #151 / Denver, CO. 80207 Author E-mail: dpeel@dillon.com Telephone: (303) 393-4028 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.1 57 2 13 33 9 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/3/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998019 Product Name: Ditto/ESA Product Release#: Vendor Name: IBM Title: Ditto Need Block Size on TP listing (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): The new TP function in Ditto/esa does not show the blocksize of the record if doing a blocked dump with the record size specified. This would be equal to the TDD function in the old Ditto where it printed the Mode and Blocksize at the top of each page. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Not having this information causes us to dump all tapes 2 times. Once to get a dump by record and once to verify the blocksize. This wastes much time and paper. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) A way to verify blocksize when getting a de-blocked dump. Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: Saturn Corporation Author Name: Ellen Alexander Author Title: Technical Support Manager Author Address: 4701 Lydell Rd Cheverly, MD 20781 Author E-mail: EAlexander@Saturncorp.com Telephone: (301) 322-6912 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.2 66 2 12 46 6 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998020 Product Name: ICCF Product Release#: Vendor Name: IBM Title: Enhance the ICCF editor (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Enhance the ICCF editor Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Publicly admit to customer harassment for forcing the Distributed Workstation feature on them, and then for your penance; 1. Say 3 Hail Marys, 2. Promise to port the functions of CMS XEDIT to ICCF, such as block commands, qquit capability, ALL, etc. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Continue with this obsolute editor Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Port CMS XEDIT to ICCF, or at least add some basic functions like block commands. Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: Author Name: Author Title: Author Address: Author E-mail: Telephone: ( ) * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.9 64 3 16 16 27 2 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998021 Product Name: VM/ESA Product Release#: 2.2.0 Vendor Name: IBM Title: VM MiniDisk Caching (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): VM/ESA minidisk caching is ignoring I/O for blocks larger than 32K. Some products, particularly CA-Sort, writes sortwork files @ 57K full track blocking on 3390 disks without regard to Sortin or Sortout blocking. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Every VM/VSE user could realize signifigant runtime reductions when reading/writing files blocked larger than 32K. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Sorting files is common to all users. I observed a job doing huge sequential file passes drop from 55 hour runtime to 13 hours after VM minidisk caching came available. Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Remove the 32K limit restriction. Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) ASAP Company Name: Bit Twiddlers, Inc. Author Name: Ernie J. Carney Author Title: President Author Address: 208 West 34th Street Houston Texas 77018 Author E-mail: Ecarney@pdq.net Telephone: (713) 825-1389 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.7 33 0 1 22 10 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998022 Product Name: VSE/VSAM Product Release#: VSE/ESA2.3 Vendor Name: IBM Title: VSE/VSAM IDCAMS Define Cluster (Brief, one line accurate summary of change desired - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Describe in greater detail): VSE/VSAM define clusterfunction of idcams does not allow use of models defined with compress option. When define cluster of new dataset specifies an existing cluster as a model and the cluster specified as the model is compressed, IDCAMS issues an error message saying compressed clusters may not be used as a model. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case. Do not reword problem statement above. How will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.) By removing this restriction customers using products that do dynamic VSAM cluster defines and only allow limited input from the user such as model would benefit. This is the case with Netview FTP/VSE, which allows a model to be specified but virtually no other parameters can be specified. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Tremendous waste of disk space. Solution: (both desireable & undesireable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or drop the product, if solution not provided) ASAP Company Name: Bit Twiddlers, Inc. Author Name: Ernie J. Carney Author Title: President Author Address: 208 W. 34th street Houston, Texas 77018 Author E-mail: Ecarney@pdq.net Telephone: (713) 8251389 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * Save as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator or registration desk. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.2 62 0 14 48 0 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998023 Product Name: DB2 Server for VSE Product Release#: 5.1 Vendor Name: IBM Title: No way to cause DB2/VSE to rewind/unload tapes during archive (Brief, one line accurate summary of change desired - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Describe in greater detail): DB2/VSE does not provide a way to specify rewinding and unloading of tapes used during any type of archive of the dB. This puts unnecessary work on the operator and even prevents one from doing an unattended archive without an operator. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case. Do not reword problem statement above. How will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.) Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Unnecessary burden on the operator; unable to do an unattended archive or backup Solution: (both desireable & undesireable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Allow for specifying rewind/unload options in the initparms for the dB Classification: (Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: Computer Credit, Inc. Author Name: Michael Rosinger Author Title: Sr. Systems Analyst/DBA Author Address: 640 W. First Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27102 Author E-mail: rosinger@nr.infi.net Telephone: () * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * Save as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator or registration desk. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.7 11 1 6 4 0 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998024 Product Name: DB2 Server for VSE Product Release#: 5.1 Vendor Name: IBM Title: DB2 VSE need utility to return SQLCODE w/parms substituted (Brief, one line accurate summary of change desired - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Describe in greater detail): >From an application program we need a way to get the full text accompanying an SQLCODE with the parms already substituted. For example, SQLCODE -630 is "Duplicate xxxxxx keyword". The utility would return the text with "xxxxxx" substituted with the value of the keyword in error. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case. Do not reword problem statement above. How will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.) Would greatly help in error resolution. I believe that DB2/MVS has a utility like this. 100% of the customers should benefit. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) We are living with it. Solution: (both desireable & undesireable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) provide a called utility from any of the supported host languages that will return the full text accompanying the current SQLCODE with all parameters already substituted within the text Classification: (Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or drop the product, if solution not provided) Nice idea Company Name: Computer Credit, Inc. Author Name: Michael Rosinger Author Title: Sr. Systems Analyst/DBA Author Address: 640 W. Fourth St, Winston-Salem, NC 27012 Author E-mail: rosinger@nr.infi.net Telephone: () 336-761-1524 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * Save as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator or registration desk. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.3 11 0 4 6 1 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998025 Product Name: DB2 Server for VSE Product Release#: 5.1 Vendor Name: IBM Title: Provide an easier way to EXPLAIN an SQL statement (Brief, one line accurate summary of change desired - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Describe in greater detail): Provide an easier way to validate the efficiency of an SQL statement than EXPLAIN. EXPLAIN is cumbersome and complicated to use. Other RDBMS's provide utilities that are easy to use and understand how SQL has built the access algorithm from the SQL statement. The output resembles a COBOL data structure level where the innermost level is what SQL does first. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case. Do not reword problem statement above. How will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.) Would greatly help in verifying SQL statement efficiency Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) We are managing without it but it sure would be nice to have. Solution: (both desireable & undesireable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Provide a more easy-to-use and easy-to-understand way to evaluate the efficiency of any SQL statement. The utility would show just how SQL is building the access path for the statement. Classification: (Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or drop the product, if solution not provided) Nice idea Company Name: Computer Credit, Inc. Author Name: Michael Rosinger Author Title: Sr. Systems Analyst/DBA Author Address: 640 W. Fourth St, Winston-Salem, NC 27012 Author E-mail: rosinger@nr.infi.net Telephone: () 336-761-1524 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * Save as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator or registration desk. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.9 9 1 6 2 0 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998026 Product Name: DB2 Server for VSE Product Release#: 5.1 Vendor Name: IBM Title: DB2/VSE Use the new form of the console MSG function (Brief, one line accurate summary of change desired - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Describe in greater detail): Add use of the new form of the AR MSG function from the console where you can specify the command at the same time, ie. MSG xx, DATA='command' Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case. Do not reword problem statement above. How will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.) Would make the use of console commands much easier, save operations time, make automation of some dB tasks easier Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) We are managing without it but it sure would be nice to have. Solution: (both desireable & undesireable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Modify DB2/VSE to also accept a console command in the new format of MSG xx, DATA='command' Classification: (Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: Computer Credit, Inc. Author Name: Michael Rosinger Author Title: Sr. Systems Analyst/DBA Author Address: 640 W. Fourth St, Winston-Salem, NC 27012 Author E-mail: rosinger@nr.infi.net Telephone: () 336-761-1524 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * Save as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator or registration desk. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.1 7 0 2 4 1 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998027 Product Name: DB2 Server for VSE Product Release#: 5.1 Vendor Name: IBM Title: DB2/VSE add option of alias for column names or expressions in ARIDBS (Brief, one line accurate summary of change desired - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Describe in greater detail): In DBS queries, it is many times desirable to rename a column or expression selected with a shorter or more meaningful name instead of the DBS default. For example, consider: SELECT (columna - columnb) *1.05 AS grossplus5. DBS would currently use "EXPRESSION((columna - columnb) *1.05)". It should allow us to rename the column and use "grossplus5" as the column header. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case. Do not reword problem statement above. How will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.) Would allow for more compact and clearer query results which could be passed on to end-users as reports. Other RDBMS's support this option! Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) We are living with it. Solution: (both desireable & undesireable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Allow use of an "alias" at the column level instead of just the table level. Classification: (Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or drop the product, if solution not provided) Suggestion/Tactical Company Name: Computer Credit, Inc. Author Name: Michael Rosinger Author Title: Sr. Systems Analyst/DBA Author Address: 640 W. Fourth St, Winston-Salem, NC 27012 Author E-mail: rosinger@nr.infi.net Telephone: () 336-761-1524 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * Save as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator or registration desk. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.0 7 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/29/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998028 Product Name: POWER Product Release#: 6.1 Vendor Name: IBM Title: POWER Expand scheduling capabilities-add/expand DUE keywords (Brief, one line accurate summary of change desired - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Describe in greater detail): You can't schedule a job to occur every x minutes or hours with DAILY; you can't do/not do special processing on holidays Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case. Do not reword problem statement above. How will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.) Would help small shops that can't afford scheduling software to make better use of POWER's scheduling capabilities Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) We are living with it. Solution: (both desireable & undesireable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Add an "every x minutes or hours" option to work with DUEDAY=DAILY;add the option to define a holiday table that POWER would reference for processing/not processing certain jobs Classification: (Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or drop the product, if solution not provided) Nice idea/Tactical Company Name: Computer Credit, Inc. Author Name: Michael Rosinger Author Title: Sr. Systems Analyst/DBA Author Address: 640 W. Fourth St, Winston-Salem, NC 27012 Author E-mail: rosinger@nr.infi.net Telephone: () 336-761-1524 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * Save as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator or registration desk. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.3 51 2 13 33 3 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998029 Product Name: VTAM Product Release#: 4.2 Vendor Name: IBM Title: Move IOBUF into 31bit area with other VTAM buffers (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) System won't perform as well as it could Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: Harford Count Govt Author Name: Mark Turner Author Title: Author Address: 45 S Main St. Author E-mail: markt@co.aa.md.us Telephone: (410) 638-3213 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.6 66 9 25 29 3 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998030 Product Name: REXX/VSE Product Release#: Vendor Name: IBM Title: vsam file access from rexx/vse (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): cannot access VSAM records from rexx Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) We need the ability to access business data in VSAM files from REXX procedures. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) slow development of REXX based solutions. Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: CDG Author Name: Phillip Gramly Author Title: Systems Programer Author Address: 102 S. Duncan Author E-mail: prgramly@cdg-hargray.com Telephone: (217) 355-7413 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.2 53 3 10 37 3 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/4/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998031 Product Name: VSE/ESA Product Release#: 2.2 Vendor Name: IBM Title: VSE/ESA 2.2 store console CP to hardcopy file (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): store the console CP console messages to the VSE hardcopy file Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) CP console messages are pertinent information that is lost Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) provide option to store the CP console message to the hardcopy file Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: AAI Corp Author Name: Richard Dolan Author Title: Systems Programmer Author Address: PO Box 126 Hunt Valley Md 21030 Author E-mail: dolan@aaicorp.com Telephone: (410) 628-3344 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) -0.3 18 0 0 1 10 7 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998032 Product Name: Control Center for DB2 Product Release#: Vendor Name: IBM Title: Control Center for DB2 Analysis of Explain results for SQL commands (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Control Center for DB2 should provide a facility for using the Explain command to provide information on performance of SQL commands and for analyzing the results of the Explain. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) The Explain command in DB2 VM and VSE provides much useful information, but it is difficult to interpret the results and determine how to modify the query or database structure to improve performance. It requires time and skill to use the information. Having a tool in Control Center to help would save time and money, and would also provide more accurate and effective use of the DB2 product. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Currently only the DBA uses the Explain command; since the DBA is not always available or consulted when that information should be checked, we are losing valuable time both for programmers and for program execution. Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Suggestion Company Name: Prince George's Co. Public Sch Author Name: Sherry Jones Author Title: DBA Author Address: 14201 School Ln., Room 140; Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 Author E-mail: sherrylj@erols.com Telephone: (301) 952-6258 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 1.6 7 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998033 Product Name: CICS Product Release#: Vendor Name: IBM Title: Shutdown option to perform PLT but not all the restart information (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): The only way to shutdown CICS and perform the PLT requires that all restart information be saved. The time required to save the restart data can be excessive. When the next startup of CICS is going to be COLD, this is wasted time Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Shutdown times can be excessive due to the restart data being saved. This restart data is not needed if the next startup of CICS is going to be COLD. The IMM option saves this time but does not perform PLT processing. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) A new option for the shutdown command (CEMT PER SHUT COLD) or just don't abort if the restart dataset is not found. Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: Volusia County Schools Author Name: Tony Thigpen Author Title: Manager, Technical Support Author Address: 200 N. Clara Ave., DeLand FL 32713 Author E-mail: tthigpen@mail.volusia.k12.fl.us Telephone: (904) 734-7190x4544 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.4 34 0 0 19 9 5 1 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/27/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998034 Product Name: VM/ESA Product Release#: v2.3 (5G5403 Vendor Name: IBM Title: Increase the maximum number of preferred Guests allowed to equal CMOS LPARS or greater (Paper #1) (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): We are currently have CMOS processors running with 7 or more LPARS. If we run uncer VM we can only have 6 preferred guests for best performance. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) If VM cound support a greater number of preferred guests we could justify more VM systems to run OS/390 guests. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Less chance of justifying additional VM systems. Current LPAR features eliminate the need for VM. Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) LR/Tactical Company Name: Computer Sciences Corp. Author Name: Mark Vandale Author Title: Sr. Member, Technical Staff Author Address: 100 Winnenden Rd. Norwich, CT 06360 Author E-mail: mvandale@cssmail.csc.com Telephone: (860) 823-2756 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.3 6 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998035 Product Name: CA-Products Product Release#: Vendor Name: CA Title: Allow putting product messages in VSE online message file (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Operators can't find manuals, much less messages in them. Same problem with CDs. The online documents via CUI are going away (according to CA), so .... Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Easier, faster lookup of messages. CA-FAQS/AO uses it, SDS Maxback now uses it. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Allow appending CA-DYNAM Family messages into VSE Online Message file. Allow appending CA-SORT messages in to VSE Online Message file. Etc. Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: SC Data Center Author Name: Dennis Bliss Author Title: Author Address: Author E-mail: bliss@scdatacenter.com Telephone: (608) 328-8605 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.6 23 0 1 11 11 0 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/28/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998036 Product Name: Faver 2 Product Release#: 3.3.5 Vendor Name: CA Title: Faver2 Need support for XXL VSAM files (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Need to be able to backup and restore VSAM files > 4 Gig Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Backup procedures will need to be modified, resulting in additional operator time, CPU time and run time Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: Dean Medical Center Author Name: Charlene Mathawson Author Title: Systems Programmer Author Address: 1313 Fish Hatchery Rd Madison WI Author E-mail: cmathewson@ssmhc.com Telephone: (608) 250-1488 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.9 39 2 3 24 9 1 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 9/29/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998037 Product Name: TCPIP4VSE Product Release#: Vendor Name: Connectivity Systems Title: Expanded Printer Control (LPAR, LPD) (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): Provide ESC character anywhere in print stream to allow for control of printer (fonts, graphics, bar codes) not just BEG and END Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) Allow us to eliminate Novell IPX connections and host print and become an all TCPIP network. Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) ASAP Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Increased cost, support, complication Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Tactical Company Name: Berren County Schools Author Name: Will Townsley Author Title: Director, Data Center Author Address: 711 St. Joe Ave Author E-mail: Telephone: (616) 471-7725 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.3 20 0 0 7 12 1 0 0 WAVV Requirement Form[IR1] Date: 7/4/1998 Requirement #: WAVV1998001 Product Name: VSE/POWER Product Release#: Vendor Name: IBM Title: Allow alternate Power spool file init while system running. (Short description of what you want the product changed to - include keywords like function, short product name) Statement of the Problem (Detailed description of what you want changed, 400 character limit): With the growth in our Power spool file requirements, the time needed to initialize during IPL is becoming a problem. Our data file format requires 50 minutes of system down time and the file is still growing. Benefit: (Non-technical description, i.e a business case -do not reword technical statement above. In terms of time, dollars, run time, manpower, etc., how will request benefit your company, the vendor and others to justify the needed change? Quantify if possible. Why is it important for vendor to want to do this for the customer? Give best estimate of customers who will benefit - 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. 400 character limit) The length of time required to initialize the Power files results in significant system down time. This can be avoided. Power should provide a program that could be used for the purpose of initializing the Power files. Alternate DTF names for the files would allow initialization while the system is running. Configuration information by passing a power control phase name in the PARM. This should also work across releases (I should be able to run a new VSE/Power init on my existing VSE system to prepare for migration). Date Needed: (ASAP, one year from now, etc) Impact: (How will your company's business be affected if a solution is not delivered) Solution: (optional: desirable and/or undesirable - Note: suggestion may limit vendor's ability to deliver a solution) Classification: (Choices - Suggestion-Nice Idea, Long Range-Future, Tactical-ASAP, or Acceptability-I won't buy the product, or will drop the product, if solution not provided) Company Name: Dillon Companies, INC. Author Name: David Peel Author Title: Sr. Systems Programmer Author Address: 3980 Quebec St. #151 / Denver, CO. 80207 Author E-mail: dpeel@dillon.com Telephone: (303) 393-4028 * Please be precise and short. * The Benefit section is extremely important - please make a business case. * Please recheck accuracy of contact information before saving. * File as unique name-WRvviinn, where vv=vendor initials, ii=your initial, 'nn' to number each requirement. Ex.: WRcawm01 ca=computer associates, wm=wayne mery * Turn in your diskette to the requirements coordinator, a black short, registration desk or save it on a registration desk or workroom PC. * [IR1] Voting: (average, total votes, +3,...,-3) 0.7 66 0 8 33 25 0 0 0  _____________________________________________________________________________ Wayne S. Mery | Systems Programmer, Lehigh University 610-758-3983 wsm0@lehigh.edu | http://www.lehigh.edu/~wsm0 VSE/ESA 2.3 | http://www.lehigh.edu/lists/vse-l/ <---VSE mail list ** Save a Life ** ** Sign an Organ Donor card ** ** http://www.transweb.org for more information **