WAVV Requirement Form

 

Date: 3/11/2002                                           Requirement #:  WAVV200234

Product Name:    Code-1 Plus           Product Release#: 2.4

Vendor Name:     Group 1 Software

 

Title: (Paraphrase problem in a single statement)Above the line version does not work

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

 

For more than two years, Group 1 has been distributing what they call an above the line version of Code-1 Plus for VSE, which is supposed to support 31 bit addressing. My company has never been able to get it to work on a VSE system that has partitions with sufficient 31 bit storage that the Code-1 Plus program phases reside in and access 31-bit storage.

                                                                                            

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

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

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?)

 

The benefits to my company will be avoiding all of the related costs of a migration to OS/390.  For Group 1, they will have an above the line version of Code-1 Plus for VSE that actually works.  For other Group-1 VSE customers, they will not have to discover this problem in Code-1 Plus.  

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

 

Modify the Code-1 Plus phases that have requirements to use only 24 bit addresses to do I/O, etc. , to ensure that they are using 24 bit addresses.

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

 

My company will be forced into a migration to OS/390 or to add an aditional VSE LPAR specifically for running Code-1 Plus to provide 24 bit virtual storage constraint relief in our three existing VSE batch LPARs.

 

Company Name:        Torchmark/Globe Life                                                                      

Author Name:            Steve Tippett                            Author Title: Technical Support Mgr.

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

Author E-mail:            stippett@torchmarkcorp.com

Telephone:                 (405) 270-1482