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IBM HourGlass for z/OS

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Improve the usability/functionality of Control Center

Customer try to use control center to specify date/time at JOB level, however customer found some issues to use Control Center as follows; Issues to be improved; - same Jobname can be registered from the panel of 'Control properties: MVS Batch/STC...
over 8 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide support to specify MM-DD format within JCL instead of Three-digit Julian day

Customer is familiar with specifying MM-DD format in JCL as ISV replace customer from xChange. They would like to set using MM-DD format in JCL, although they know that they could check the Julian date by using REXX exec AGGDD.
over 8 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Customer would like to place the DD statements in JCL other than programmer name field to specify at JOB level

When customer would like to specify date/time in JCL at JOB level, Hourglass only support to set it in the programmer name filed. However customer currently use the programmer name filed for another purpose. This is the request to provide another ...
over 8 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Avoidance of repettive HourGlass ACES scans in AGGELIG

This is a dramatic CPU-time reduction request. HourGlass processing is controlled by an "ACES", a table in ECSA strorage. The table contains information on whether and how to change the local time during a TIME service call. This is done by runnin...
over 9 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

The AGGCXB Report does not contain all fields

In contrast to the Hour Glass Control Center Control Overview the AGBCX-report does not contain all fields. An example you will find in the attached file "example.txt":The first two rows show an entry in the control overview.the third shows the do...
over 9 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Opportunity to sort IBM HourGlass: Controls Overview

Sometimes we have more than 1000 entries in the Controls Overview.To better manage this we want to have the opportunity to sort the entries after a column (for example (User-ID).
over 9 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Extensions of the Selection Criteria in the Control Center

Command ===> Selection Criteria: CE Name ===> W*__________ Owner-ID ===> *_______ Control Type: (Enter "/" to select option) / ALL _ MVS Batch _ TSO/ISPF _ JOB Schedule _ IMS Online/BMP _ DB2 Batch, SPUFI & DDF Press ENTER to process,...
over 9 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

IBM Hour Glass CICS, set time to the second, not just minute

All a method to choose the second instead of setting to zero
about 10 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Seperate 'started tasks' Control Elements types from 'batch' Control Element types in the HourGlass Control Center

HourGlass was the recommended product replacement for Application Time Facility. Application Time Facility had seperate types of processing to seperate started tasks from batch processing jobs. Application Time Facilty had a type STC for started t...
over 10 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add Hourglass support for offset dates that survive across IPLs

Please add support for relative date offset that survives an IPL and is requested by using an relative offset start date.Could look like Oxddmmyyyyy where x=P or M and ddmmyyyyy dd is the number of days to offset relative to current date. I sugges...
over 10 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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