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IBM HourGlass for z/OS

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IBM HourGlass should support XPLINK and 64-bit C programs

There are three combinations of linkage conventions and addressing modes supported by the IBM XL C/C++ compiler on z/OS: 31-bit non-XPLINK, 31-bit XPLINK and 64-bit XPLINK. XPLINK provides performance benefits and 64-bit addressing mode provides s...
almost 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 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...
almost 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...
almost 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.
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Create CICS Control Element

Allow the Control Center running under ISPF to support date/time simulations for CICS regions.
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 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...
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Hour Glass should let a user know the date/time request is invalid.

Hour Glass does not let a user know that they submitted an invalid date/time request. All we need if for Hour Glass development to issue at minimum an informational message in the JCL job/CICS region...etc that the date/time request submitted is i...
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

We would like to be able to set the Hourglass date in CICS from a Batch job.

We would like to be able to update the HourGlass date in a CICS region from a batch job, Perhaps by using exci and passing the date to hourglass.
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 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 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Customer would like to be able to run two instances of the IBM Hourglass on the same lpar.

When the customer installs maintenance for Hourglass in their development environment, they have no way of reviewing the impact of the maintenance...whether its corrects the defined issue or causes a new problem. They have a test lpar that they ca...
about 12 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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