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My ideas: IBM HourGlass for z/OS

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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...
15 days ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Under review

Create a New FMID to install JAVA interface within IBM HourGlass for z/OS

Currently, the way the product is packaged FMID HAD5710 fails to APPLY when ordering it as a CBPDO via Shopz. RELFILE: IBM.HAD5710.F1 (contains)NAMEAGG1DCSIAGG2RECVAGG3ALCSAGG4DDEFAGG5APLYAGG6ACPT --END-- It fails to bring members: AGG35ALC and AG...
about 1 year ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 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 6 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement to use the AMASPZAP service aid.

The HourGlass product uses the AMASPZAP service aid to provide modified product modules. This may not be possible by some clients who are restricted from using the Superzap tool.
almost 2 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Remov the requirement to use the AMASPZAP service aid.

The HourGlass product uses the AMASPZAP service aid to provide modified product modules. This may not be possible by some clients who are restricted from using the Superzap tool.
almost 2 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Require support for Cobol 6.3 function FORMATTED-CURRENT-DATE

Cobol function CURRENT-DATE is manipulated by Hourglass but function FORMATTED-CURRENT-DATE is not. Please refer to PMR ID TS009579530 for more details.
over 2 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Enhancement Hourglass

We use HOURGLASS to update the date. HOURGLASS allow us only a specific date. We would like to have the ability to obtain a different date, Relative Date Plus ou Minus a number of days (for example, Day +7).We would like to do this thru AGGCX tran...
over 7 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

HGSC option 1 to prefill CURRENT

HourGlass CICS settings control transaction, HGSC, option 1 - Display Settings, should pre-fill the "NAME OF SETTINGS TO DISPLAY" field with "CURRENT" so the user doesn't have to key it in each time. It is easy enough to overtype this value if the...
over 5 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Batch interface to load CICS settings

I would like a means of loading a saved CICS settings record (from the AGGSCDS) into a CICS region (i.e. what HGSC does) from a batch job step, and a way of activating an ad-hoc setting for a user within a CICS region (i.e. what HGUC does) from a ...
over 5 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Hourglass Duplicate Batch Job control records

Hourglass permits duplicate Batch job name control records (with different Date/Time changes) , which introduces the problem that a Job will be intercepted by Hourglass with an incorrect Date
almost 6 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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