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IBM HourGlass for z/OS

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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

add a program interface for tran HGCB function

Provide a program interface for HGCB function.HGCB refreshes the hourglass time by reading new TIME= and DATE parm from AGGDATE DD.We need a program interface so that a user transaction(not HGCB) can link an HourGlass program to refresh the hourgl...
over 10 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Fix Step Start Time request under CICS

Provide Fixed Step Start Time functionality under CICS
over 10 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Control Elements for CICS

Control Elements for CICS.we would like AGGSCDS sharing across CICS region on the same LPAR / override the date at the CICS started task level (similar to ATF)It needs to be able to retain date/time overrides when the region cycles. It needs to be...
over 10 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Repository date control for CICS

Please update Hourglass to allow date/time control for CICS through the repository like all other online systems. My customer would like date/time control for all their regions and jobs in one location. Thank you. Rose
over 10 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

CICS Exclude Lists

In CICS, add support for excluding transactions and programs from Hourglass processing.
over 10 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...
over 10 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 10 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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