Regarding the scores, the values can range from +5 (highly desirable) to -5 (would cause negative impact). In this particular situation, 27 people said it was desirable (7 of them said it was +5). Now compare that to opening an APAR where only one site wants a change. In my experience, requirements carry a lot more weight than a suggestion APAR from a single customer. In fact, some developers have even asked me to submit a SHARE requirement so they can get more justification for including a change they think is important. Currently this particular requirement is waiting on a response from IBM, and I'll let you know what happens.
My point, though, is that you can really make a difference. Instead of, or in addition to, complaining about something that IBM does wrong, please take the time to submit a SHARE requirement, which can likely obtain more sites to support your request. In addition to the SHARE link that Ed gave earlier, here's a presentation and paper describing SHARE requirements and how you can affect IBM's development choices: http://www.watsonwalker.com/PR100317.pdf. Once you've learned out how to submit a SHARE requirement, it should take less than 10 minutes to submit the next one. Best regards, Cheryl ====================== Cheryl Watson Watson & Walker, Inc. www.watsonwalker.com ====================== On Nov 21, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 11/21/2010 5:40 PM, W. Kevin Kelley wrote: > Ed, > > The biggest challenge is likely to be the limited resource in TSO (the IKJ > component), but I'll see what I can do... It certainly wouldn't hurt to > resubmit > it as part of the SHARE requirements clean-up. Upon closer examination, it appears this requirement was moved into re-voting status on 26 October, 2010 and then to its current status on 17 November, 2010. That's where its current 3.4 score came from. The March 1993 score was only 3.0. Apparently, z/OS customers want good messages even more now than MVS customers did 18 years ago. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 [email protected] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
