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    Enhancement to the RAMFIL USER statement

    We have source sipfil.cpy components that are shared among VIPs. We are in the process of building a loosely coupled system with different CPUIDs for each front end/backend pair. We would like a way to keep the sipfil.cpy source common where they ...
    8 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Add Timeout Argument to Find, Wait and Hold Macro/Functions (assembler & C)

    Applications/Utilities/Processes need a way to provide the max amount of time it is willing to wait to access a data record. If the timeout value for the "W"ait has been reached, then the process can make a determination what should happen in the ...
    9 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Needs more information

    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...
    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
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 1 Future consideration

    Handle controlled abends

    Having a main program running, calling a subprogram where the subprogram does an controlled abend is causing issue in TAZ -EDT When recording a program where the abend occurs in a submodule, the correct data is recorded, but during replay the prog...
    2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

    The error "EQA4093E A valid DBRM file for PROGXYZ is not found" is raised during replay even though the test is successful

    When replaying a DB2 COBOL testcase, the error "EQA4093E A valid DBRM file for PROGXYZ is not found" can be seen in the job output but the replay is actually successful and then job ends with a return code 0. The error message can be resolved by a...
    3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    about 1 month 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.
    9 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 3 Future consideration

    TPFUG Requirement: Enchancement to ZSRVC: Manage REST services statistics to provide additional information

    Increase visibility for troubleshooting issues and configuring REST Services for zTPF developers and operations support. Update ZSRVC STATS display at a high level to provide how many times each operation is being called, payload sizes, and respon...
    about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

    Update ZOVFS mkusr command with longer/complexer user-id/password and default directory

    With the current ZOVFS mkusr command we can add users with an 8 character alphanumeric user-id and password. A longer user-id (e.g. up to 25 characters) which can also contain special characters gives more flexibility for adding users, e.g. using ...
    4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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