Binyamin, Please don't assume from your experience with ISPF that it applies to all Share projects and requirements (or even to the current situation with ISPF). The Share MVSE project has been quite successful in obtaining IBM assistance in evaluating and working on requirements. The current IBM managers for z/OS development are quite interested in meeting customer requirements. I'll grant that we can't get everything we ask for, but we can make a lot of headway.
At this moment, the MVSE project is in the final phase of a two-year project to clean up our large backload of requirements. In reviewing the older requirements, a small committee found that almost half of the older requirements HAD been implemented in some release, but the database hadn't been updated. So some developers were listening. There are about 200 requirements left on our database, and the members are voting this week to rank the top 40 or so to give to IBM, who asked for such a ranking. As Ed mentioned, developers get an "attaboy" for requirements they fulfill, so that just shows that it's a worthwhile process. Best regards, Cheryl ====================== Cheryl Watson Watson & Walker, Inc. www.watsonwalker.com 941-266-6609 ====================== On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: I remember being at a requirements meeting (ISPF) where IBM was rejecting some requirements, and when I was reviewing them I mentioned that at least one of the "rejected" requirements was already in the product. The IBM rep had no problem at all changing it to "available". At that point I realized that the requirements meetings were a waste of time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
