Hello fellow IBM-MAINers! I'd like to point out a new WSC Techdoc in case you missed it. You can find it at: http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS5188 .
This Techdoc has instructions on how to use the existing Service Portal function, MyNotifications, to give you information on new function APARs as they close. This capability had been a SHARE requirement, so you may be interested in it. You can find the details at that website, but I'll describe it here. You probably are using MyNotifications today, and this is just an additional capability. In the TechDoc, there are two files - one is a PDF that you can use step-by-step to sign up for New Function notification, the other is text file "backlog" of New Function APARs that we gathered on 7 October 2013. (I can re-gather a more current list periodically, for those that sign up later and have a gap in what is on this list and what is in their subscription.) It's really very easy to register your notification. The idea is that you subscribe to all the z/OS New Function APARs, and then you decide how you want to get notification of them through the normal process in MyNotifications - email or folder. You can't scope it to just BCP or RACF or whatever...it is z/OS platform wide. The notification will tell you the APAR number, component name (so you can see if you are interested in that component), a brief abstract of the APAR, and a URL link to get you to more information on it on the web. I've posted this information in my SHARE Blog also, and if you'd like to make a comment there (or here!) on using it, please do! -Marna WALLE z/OS System Installation IBM Poughkeepsie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
