Get New Function

Notifications with a

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Subsciption!

Marna WALLE

mwalle@us.ibm.com

Customer Requirement SSMVSE12027� Submitted: 2012-10-08 07:34

� Description: The ability to be notified of New Function APARsvia the IBMLink ASAP feature is needed. The need has also been there, but has been made more important because of the announcement of the two-year z/OS cycle.

� Benefit: People can learn of important new functions an features of z/OS without having to wait for two years for the announcement of a feature, or without having to review every single PTF that's released

� Solution: Add a new subscription capability for 'New Function‘ at the time of APAR closure.

� Impact if no solution provided.: People might miss out on important new functions, especially those that provide improved performance.

IBM Support Portal for

z/OS already exists

You may have Notification

Subscriptions already

today…click on “z/OS - All

versions and releases”,

then check “Version

independent”, then Go.

https://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/support

Scroll down and click

on “Support

notifications”.

Logon with your IBM

id. Each subscription

is tailored for you.

You might already have subscriptions.

Recommended: add another rather than

change existing, to keep it separate.

Click on Edit.

Under “Production information and

publications” click on “New Function APARS”.

Recommended: make sure nothing else is

checked, or your notification will be “full” of

other things.

Scroll down and click on

“Submit”.

Click on “Delivery preferences”,

to customize your notification

method.

Put your preferences, I

like one email a day.

Then click on Submit.

All set up! Click on

“Unsubscribe” to remove

the subscription.

Click on “View” if you

want to see your

accumulation of

notifications.

All the recent New

Function APARs, click to

see the APAR details.

Your new subscription to

New Function APARs

may look something like

this.

Links to usual APAR

information from the

internet.