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IBM HourGlass for z/OS

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IBM HourGlass 8.1 Maintenance Page could be improved

Will save time and headaches to the System Programmer user community
6 days ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
6 months ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Future consideration

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

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 2 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 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 3 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 3 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 3 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Requesting for 64bit version of the C++ Zap

We're using Hourglass V7.1 on Z/OS 2.3The application programmers have introduced a new version of an existing legacy program. The new code is not picking up hourglass date. The only difference between the batch jobs is the application program. Th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Can Hourglass programs be defined with API(OPEN).

With the current Hourglass CICS program definitions it is possible thatthey will generate significant numbers of TCB swaps for each access toCICS timing facilities once the application programs are defined asThreadsafe ( API(OPEN) ) Find the addit...
over 6 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 6 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 6 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration