WAVV Requirement Form[IR1]

Date: 9/13/2001 Requirement #: WAVV200210

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

Vendor Name: B.I. Moyle and Associates

Title: (Paraphrase problem in a single statement)Poor support of tape and disk device independence

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

Jobs cancel with message EP021 when attempting to create a disk version of an EPIC dataset that has previous versions that were tape subdatasets.

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)

Feature/Function

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 labor cost of having to do massive JCL changes and creation of new EPIC dataset names in order to do a tape to disk migration to improve batch processing performance. For BIM, make BIM-EPIC functionally consistent with its documented support for tape and disk device independence.

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

Modify BIM-EPIC to allow EPIC datasets that have versions that were created as tape subdatasets to also have versions that reside on disk.

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

Increased labor cost for a tape to disk migration to improve batch performance.

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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· Please be precise and short.

· The Benefit section is extremely important – please make a business case.

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