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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM HourGlass for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 21, 2015

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Improve the usability/functionality of Control Center

Customer try to use control center to specify date/time at JOB level, however customer found some issues to use Control Center as follows;

Issues to be improved;

- same Jobname can be registered from the panel of 'Control properties: MVS Batch/STC' without any validation checking.
- If multiple control elements have same Jobname, the control element which have minimum value for 'Name' field is selected, and the other all control elements which have same Jobname are ignored.
Customer have to manage and control which one is selected by themselves, however it is not easy to find which control element has minimum value for 'Name' field.
Since multiple person in application development team share the work for registering the control element using Control Center so it is not so easy to manage and operate the control elements efficiently.
- If there is any information which control element has minimum value for 'name' field of same jobname, or any kind message when registering the control element which has same jobname,
it will improve the usability of the Control Center.

This is the request to improve the usability/functionality of Control Center.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 23, 2020

    Based on our current plans and priorities it is not likely that this will be implemented in the next 12 months and so it is being declined at this point. The requirement will be kept in the RFE system and might be reassessed in the future. You also have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be reconsidered then.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 1, 2016

    Control Element Grouping provides the capability to en-group any number of Control Elements, of any types, and then refer to them by the Group name. Any number of Groups may be defined in the HourGlass Repository, up to the limit of the available DASD space, and any Control Element can participate in any number of Groups. Support for the Control Element Grouping feature is currently part of HourGlass. To improve the functionality of the Control Center, we will include support for retrieving Control Elements by a Group name in our future release development plans.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - IBM HourGlass

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - IBM HourGlass

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