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IBM HourGlass for z/OS

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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,...
almost 10 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
over 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...
almost 11 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...
about 11 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
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under 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
about 11 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.
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 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...
over 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.
almost 12 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration