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IBM HourGlass for z/OS

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Provide a customizable HourGlass ACES Refresh and Stop Delay Time Parameter

HourGlass changes the local time for selective applications that take part in a time journey. The HourGlass ACES table contains the jobnames of jobs that are to run with an altered time and is in ECSA storage.When performing a dynamic ACES replace...
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Refreshing updates in HourGlass

When in the Control Center and have added a new control element or updated an existing control element, it would be really nice to be able to type ACTIVATE on the command line rather than PF3 and selecting option 2 to save and activate.SAVE should...
over 8 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 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

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

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 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