WAVV Requirement Form[IR1]

Date: 9/13/2001 Requirement #: WAVV200209

Product Name: BIM-EPIC Product Release#: 6.3B

Vendor Name: B.I. Moyle and Associates

Title: (Paraphrase problem in a single statement)Inefficient of use of VSE LUB's (Logical Unit Blocks)

Detailed Problem Description: (Description of what you want changed - 400 character entry limit)

In VSE/ESA systems with 240+ disk volumes allocated to EPIC, jobs intermittently cancel with message EP010 or EPM25 due to EPIC not unassigning programmer LUBS it has assigned to disk.

Priority: (Select one: Urgent - High - Medium - Low) High

Requested Completion Date: (When? Examples: 3 months, 1 year, Next Release) 3 months

Requirement Type: (Select one: Acceptability - Compatibility/Migration - Ease of Use - Feature/Function - Performance - Reliability/Availability/Serviceability - Packaging - Interoperability)

Reliability/Availability/Serviceability

Business Justification: (Why? Non-technical business case description. Do not reword Detailed Problem Description from above. What are the benefits to be gained by your company, and the vendor and others? Quantify: run time, dollars, manpower, etc. Why should the vendor do this for the customer?)

For my company, avoid the cost of an OS/390 migration. For BIM, make BIM-EPIC compatible with VSE/ESA's support for up to 1024 devices.

Solution: (Optional)(Desired/undesired elements Note: Making a suggestion may limit a vendors ability to deliver a solution)

Modify BIM-EPIC to keep track of LUB's that it allocates and unassign those LUB's when there are no longer any open EPIC files using them.

Impact: (Optional) (How will your company’s business be affected if a solution is not delivered?)

Stop our migration from using primarily 3480 tape to using disk for batch processing, or, a multi-million dollar migration to OS/390.

Company Name: Torchmark Corporation

Author Name: Steve Tippett Author Title: Technical Support Manager

Author Address: 14000 Quail Springs Pkwy, Suite 120, Oklahoma City, OK 73134

Author E-mail: stippett@torchmarkcorp.com

Telephone: (405) 270-1482

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