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IBM HourGlass for z/OS

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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

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...
almost 12 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...
about 9 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.
about 9 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...
almost 10 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...
about 10 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

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