IBM HourGlass

Time dimensional testing is essential for delivering reliable applications. Date handling for online transaction processing must be accurate to support banking, financial, healthcare, inventory management, insurance, transportation, utility or other customer-facing applications. Anything less than 100 percent date and time accuracy is unacceptable and the negative consequences can be significant.

IBM^® HourGlass provides value in automating the date/time testing process to help companies deliver reliable applications — without changing application code or requiring a separate computing environment.

Developers and quality assurance testers can simulate any date and time during the testing process. This capability ensures that complex enterprise applications generate accurate results on key processing and reporting dates.

HourGlass is the world's most widely used system date simulator for applications installed in the mainframe MVS OS/390 and z/OS operating environments.