WAVV Requirement Form

 

Date: 5/22/2005                                             Requirement #:  WAVV200525

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

Vendor Name:     IBM

 

Title: (Paraphrase problem in a single statement)Produce more information for VSAM Open Error  hex A8 - 168 (File in Use).

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

 

Produce more information when VSAM Open Error A8 - 168 is presented on the console showing what resources are in contention.

                                                                                            

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

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

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

 Realiability/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?)

 

 Isolate which tasks are in contention by providing more detail information for problem determination.      

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

 

Provide more useful information in the message showing which CPUID and Partitions that are impacted. For a possible solution (rather than changing the design of the lock file), internally do a LOCK SHOW, analyze the results, and display the PID that has the dataset open, or if PID is not found, display "Not open on this system."              

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

 

 Lost production time    

 

Company Name:        Systems & Comm. Sciences                                                                    

Author Name:             Don Hooker                               Author Title:      Senior Systems programmer

Author Address:          244 Poor Farm Road, New Ipswich, NH 03071-3922   

Author E-mail:                don.hooker@sacsi.com

Telephone:                 ( 603  )   271-1535