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    Provide soultion to automate setting of CICS options

    We are looking to automate our mainframe testing. We are using the RSE API to enable automatic submission of jobs. With jobs adding hourglass options is trivial with the correct dd names, but with CICS we only have the BMS panels with HGCC and HGU...
    about 1 year ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Future consideration

    Identifying the last PTF and/or APAR applied to the running instance.

    It will be joining the IBM standard of displaying a PTF or APAR of the running product last maintenance when initializing.
    2 months ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Under review

    IBM HourGlass 8.1 Maintenance Page could be improved

    Will save time and headaches to the System Programmer user community
    2 months ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Under review

    Create a transaction which performs the same function as HGSC option 3 - Activate saved setting so that users can enter it from a console. For example, HGxx SETTING=name,TYPE={G|U|B}}

    HGSC is the menu driven transaction, so someone has to logon to the CICS regions and run the activate option to change the time offset for the global offset and/or the user offset. This is no good for our environment because; It takes a lot of tim...
    9 months ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Future consideration

    JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

    We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
    about 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

    WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

    Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
    about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

    Web Service support for WS-Atomic Transaction

    Support is required for Web Service Atomic Transaction, see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.zseries.doc/info/zseries/ae/cjta_wstran.html
    about 18 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

    request to support packaging the fda7.jar at the EAR level

    When moving the fda7.jar at the EAR level, EGL Web service fails with error Caused by: java.rmi.RemoteException: EGL1603E An error occurred while loading the com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService service. Error: com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService_I...
    over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

    Hour Glass Cannot Exclude Modules from CICS

    PROGRAM A is running in CICS transaction with HG altered time .. PROGRAM A calls PROGRAM B to create a log entry. We would like PROGRAM B to use SYSTEM time so the LOG entry has current system time. PROGRAM A business logic will continue to displa...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    EGLSDK to generate service configuration files in the same way as EGLCMD and Ant scripts

    This was previously raise as Case number TS014714157, where it was suggested to raise it as an RFE, for inclusion in the next release. EGLSDK does not generate essential configuration files, needed to call EGL services.1. generate -generateFile Xx...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Planned for future release

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