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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.
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

In Hourglass, provide support for Native DB2 Stored Procedures, DB2 Triggers, Java and DB2 UDF's (User Defined Functions).

In Hourglass, provide support for Native Stored Procedures, DB2 Triggers, Java andDB2 UDF's (User Defined Functions). Also this is a additional request. IF WS-GEN-FIXED NOT = 'Y' MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE TO WS-SYSTEM-DATE-TIME ELSE MOVE 20090410...
about 12 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide date/time shift support for SAP Central Services on USS within z/OS.

This comprises the enqueue and message servers plus 3/5 other services.The standard ABAP central services.  Some SAP products such as Solutions Manager and Process Integration also have a JAVA version of SAP Central Services running within USS. At...
about 12 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Provide date/time shift support for SNTPD server on z/OS

Customer would like to see existing support in Hourglass extended to include support fot date/time shifting in SNTPD server running on z/OS
about 12 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Implement a "Business Calendar" in Hourglass.

Create a new feature of a "Business Calendar" where a customer can enter Holidays, Plant Shut Downs, Vacations, etc. A new option to include the "Business Calendar" would be included when Hourglass calculates prior or future dates for application ...
about 12 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration