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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 30, 2012

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 running through code in CSECT AGGELIG that scans in a loop through the whole ACES for every time call, i.e. eventually millions of times for the same TCB even though the result is always the same and even if no HourGlass time change is requested.

Suggested improvement:
Avoid repetitive scans of the ACES by storing the scan result somewhere and reuse it on subsequent calls for the affected TCB until the TCB ends or the ACES is refeshed.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    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

  • Guest
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    Dec 6, 2012

    RFE request under evaluation.