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    Enhance the ITERATE macro to include a condition.

    If the ITERATE macro supported conditions, every assembler program that uses ITERATE within a DO construct will be smaller and more efficient.
    9 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 1 Planned for future release

    Group List Support in DSSGROUP

    It would be a good idea if in the SECTION DSSGROUP, in addition to lists with SECTION IPICSERVER server names, you could add lists composed of other SECTION DSSGROUP group names.
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    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...
    25 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

    Support AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications

    Hello IBM, AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications is currently not officially supported by IBM. However, 64-bits support already exist for C applications.Adding support for PL/I only requires simple updates to the CMQEPP copybook. Here is an exa...
    3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

    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

    Reduce the amount of storage used by the JSONGet functions

    We see high cpu from LE 'Get a stack' from build in PL/1 JSONGet functions like JsonGetValue. Please reduce the stack used storage in the JSONGet functions.
    3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

    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

    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

    STO REG ALL

    If we want to stop manually an IMS, we have to stop each MPP manually by entering STO REG command with the REGID or Jobname. In order to accelerate the process, is it possible to have a command : STO REG ALL like STO TRAN ALL; STOP DB ALL
    6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

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