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    Reduce volume size required during image creation

    When TAz's On Demand discovery process is identifying all the volumes required for the image creation it will capture all space on each volume where a required data set is located. In some cases, there may be only 1 smaller dataset on a large volu...
    about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

    Unable to capture test data for batch COBOL when the program abends and code coverage is enabled

    A controlled abend in the main module will not import the data necessary to get to the replay step.The abend is the cause; but the abend needs to be generated to get a full result for the test case and code coverage. For example, on an error with ...
    2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Under review

    Add XML Schema Validation Support for XML PARSE Operations in Early Development Test

    IBM Test Accelerator for Z (TAZ) testcase replay fails when executing COBOL XML PARSE statements with the VALIDATING WITH FILE clause. TAZ does not capture or record XML schema validation logic during testcase recording, resulting in missing DD st...
    about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

    Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

    Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
    over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

    Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

    Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keywords (/DIS STATUS.), which can result in massive output message for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This affects system operator's operation. This also affects throughput of workloa...
    over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

    Improve Error Handling for Files Without Extensions in Unit Test Creation

    Current Behavior: When creating a new unit test from a recording in TAZ and selecting a source file without an extension, a dialog error is displayed: An error has occurred. See error log for more details. Cannot invoke "java.lang.String.equals(ja...
    about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

    Support for PL/I

    Unit Testing currently has support for Cobol, but not for PL/I at the moment yet there is a huge number of clients using PL/I
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 1 Future consideration

    Allow TAZ to capture calls that get the current date for replay

    There are programs that perform logic based on the current date. For example, transaction processing. The way to handle the transaction could vary based on when the transaction was received. When capturing the original test case, the recording cap...
    5 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

    DBCS character set(1364) support

    All EBCDIC data is interpreted as Codepage-1047 (English) and then converted back to UTF-8, which is sometimes inaccurate. if 1364 DBCS character set is supported, then this problem can be solved.
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 3 Future consideration

    Optimize SYSRES Volume Build Capacity

    Currently, the ODE process for building SYSRES volumes requires a full volume snapshot of the source system. For example, in JPMC, the SS60 build scenario results in a storage requirement of 17.4 TB on both the Storage Server and the target VM. Th...
    3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

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