Endevor 19.0 GA Announcement - Package Approver Group Selection - ISPF/Batch

[Vaughn Marshall]

Hi all,

I am pleased to announce that a new enhancement:  Package Approval Group Selection for ISPF and Batch was published for Endevor 19.0 on Dec 4.

Description:

This enhancement allows users to approve a package for a specific approver group. The feature also gives users the ability to optionally restrict approval to just one approver group.
Package Approver Group Selection is available in both the Batch interface (the ENBP1000 utility program) and ISPF interface (online package and batch package processing). Enablement of the feature is controlled by the following ENCOPTBL options:

• CD19008_APPROVER_DISQUALIFIED_MULTI_APG
• CD19008_ISPF_APG_SELECTION

Documentation:

Release Notes

PTFs:

LU18523 (V19 - Endevor)

LU18524 (V19 - Endevor Japanese Localization)

[Mathew Goldstein]

This is useful for approver groups with a non-zero quorum. However, we do not want anyone to be prompted to select a quorum=0 approver group since they have no role in reviewing the package and when someone mistakenly selects a quorum=0 approver group that disqualifies that person from reviewing the package. Can this be implemented so that it ignores zero quorum approver groups? We duplicate our external approver groups that have disqualification enabled with zero quorum internal approver groups that also have disqualification enabled so that disqualification messages appear in the package cast report.

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[Joseph Walther]

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[Vaclav Brunnhofer]

Hi Matthew, thank you for the feedback. Would something as simple as an option to hide Quorum=0 Approver Groups help or do you have any own idea to solve this? I would log an Idea on your behalf. Thank you.

[Mathew Goldstein]

I looked at the C1SP4200 panel code and concluded that yes, something as simple as an option to not display the Quorum=0 Approver Groups would remedy this problem. That would make it feasible for us to enable this new feature.

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[Vaclav Brunnhofer]

Thank you! I logged an idea on your behalf: