WAVV Requirement Form

Date: 4/21/2008 Requirement #: WAVV200843

Product Name: CICS/TS Product Release# (or state “current”): Current

Vendor Name: IBM

Title: (Paraphrase problem in a single statement)EXEC CICS command level access to LIBR members

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

The ability to read, write and replace LIBR members from a CICS program. (Read is a much higher need that write or replace.) Currently, there only programmatic way to access LIBR is via assembler macros that are not usable in CICS.

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

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

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

Compatibility (z/OS) - Ease of use - Feature

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?)

LIBR is the best place to store graphics and other non-EBCDIC web information yet it is not easily available to a CICS program. z/OS provides the ability to access PDS's for similar functions.

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

Provide new EXEC CICS |READ|WRITE|DELETE| LIBR commands. Provide for both standard and 'string' members.

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

My company would use this feature at multiple customer sites to web server PDF documents stored as ASCII LIBR members.

Author Name: Tony Thigpen Author Title: President

Company Name: Thigpen Enterprises, Inc.

& Address: 102 Brandiwood Ct (Street Number and Name)

(Department or Attention)

DeBary, FL 32713 (City/State/Providence/PostalCode/Country)

Author E-mail: tony@vse2pdf.com

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