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IBM HourGlass for z/OS

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Create CICS Control Element

Allow the Control Center running under ISPF to support date/time simulations for CICS regions.
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Allow HourGlass to accept a Date a number of days ahead or back

Hourglass allows you to specify a date plus or minus a number of years from the current date.I need to have this ability to specify a date plus (or minus) a number of days, this number should be 3 digits to allow for upto a year (although 999 woul...
about 9 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 ...
about 9 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under 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 5 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 6 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...
almost 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Relative Date Offset

Hourglass currently supports relative year offset using Yxdd where x=P for plus and M for minus and dd= number of years to offset. Please add support for relative day offset.You could use something like Dxdddd where x=P or M and dddd is the number...
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Set future date support by Job Class

This is a request to split requirement RFE 34946 into two RFEs. For batch future date testing it would be valuable to be able to set future date support by Job Class. This would make it even easier to support batch and would be more versatile. Hou...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

HourGlass MVS load

Contrary to IBM recommended practices HourGlass uses an MVS load in a program executing in CICS. When the load fails for any reason CICS becomes non-responsive. Upgrade HourGlass to recognize it is running in CICS and perform an EXEC CICS LOAD com...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Improved Control Center functions for job schedules

It would be beneficial to be able to create different groups of diverse workloads at an environment\group level and set the future date at that level rather than each diverse workload. Customer current future date requirement is to continually run...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Request for sharing the Control Center VSAM file between LPARS and CICS Regions.

Request for sharing the Control Center VSAM file between LPARS and CICS Regions. Currently, each LPAR and each CICS region need their own separate VSAM file defined.
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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