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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM HourGlass for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 9, 2014

RELATED IDEAS

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 tasks and a type JOB for batch jobs. This allowed for seperation of a definition between the 2 types, whereas the HourGlass Control Center only has a type of MBAT, which can define either a started task or a batch job to make it available for date/time warping. Seeing as how the adminstration of the HourGlass date/time changes are handled by a seperate group of testing administrators who do not know or care about the many started tasks are running on the mainframe LPARs, this leaves a large hole for possible system processing errors for the mainframe started tasks. So far, this has impacted both the IBM Fault Analyzer product and also had a catastrophic impact on the Computer Associates CA7 scheduling started tasks.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     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
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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

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