If you would let me know the Incident Report Number, I'd like to see if this
can be
escalated to the appropriate area within CA.  There must be some reason to
have Support
respond this way.  Send the number here, or send it privately to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll be glad to see what I can find.

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Chase, John
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 SYSN AM 9:40
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CICS UOWID overlaid with CA's CommBridge in MRO environment

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Barry
> 
> Cross-post.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Barry
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Regarding this reported symptom condition, CA now 
> acknowledges that the CICS/CMF transaction
> record's UOWID field contents (SMF 110 subtype 1) are 
> overlaid by their CA AllFusion Gen CommBridge
> product, specifically many unique/individual transaction 
> executions contain the same UOWID string.  
> 
> With CA's final response that "no other customer has 
> complained," the reported issue has been closed
> and will not be addressed without additional "...demand from 
> the customer base."

The mere fact that ONE customer reports data corruption caused by a
vendor product, which the vendor then acknowledges to be true, ought to
be sufficient impetus for the vendor to correct its product's behavior
"now".  That "no other customer has complained" is utterly irrelevant,
and certainly not an excuse to propagate a defective product in the
marketplace.

> Hopefully there are other CICS users running CA's CommBridge 
> software who can identify the
> importance of having an accurate UOWID/NETNAME combination 
> for relating MRO-related transactions
> with management reporting and also IT chargeback.

We don't currently use CommBridge, and based on your experience we will
never even consider using it.

    -jc-

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