WAVV Requirement Form

 

Date: 4/19/2004                                           Requirement #:  WAVV200433

Product Name:    Power           Product Release# (or state “current”): current

Vendor Name:     IBM

 

Title: (Paraphrase problem in a single statement)Need to add to the end of OFFLOAD tape

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

 

Operater OFFLOADS print to tape for backup. After tape is unloaded he finds that he did not offload all the jobs to the tape. Currently he must restore the tape and then offload all the jobs to a tape. There needs to be a command to go to the end of the last file on the tape and continue the offload operation with the additional print jobs.

                                                                                            

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

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

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

ease of use

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?)

 

Saves time and reduces tape handleing by not restoring the tape and backing it up again.

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

 

     

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

 

Increases the posibility that print datat can be lost.

 

Company Name:        Oklahoma Department of Corrections                                                                    

Author Name:            Stephen Frazier                                    Author Title: Technical Services

Author Address:         3400 N. Martin Luther King AVE.

                                    Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111     

Author E-mail:            StephenPFrazier@netscape.net

Telephone:                 (405) 425-2549