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    Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

    An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
    6 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

    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...
    27 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

    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

    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 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

    Password spray alerts various sources

    zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
    about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

    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

    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...
    2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID?

    For any incoming IMS Connect transaction: Extract user ID in USERDATA field for a specific IMS transaction profile in RACF(TIMS), and replace original user ID. user ID in USERDATA will be propagated as OMSECUID in IMS Connect. Business reaso...
    4 months ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Under review

    Fix HLASM line continuation detection issue in MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB

    The HLASM parser fails to correctly capture the line continuation when using IBM Z Open Editor to view the epsmort.bms file (lines 24-27) of the MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB, and marks it as a code warning. See lines 24-28 of the at...
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

    Better documentation of debugger requirements

    it is not clear in the documentation that TAZ has requirements to the configuration of the debug component. Specifically that Delayed Debug cannot be enabled i EQAOPTS. If it is a early development testing recording will fail as it cannot located ...
    4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

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