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Instance Controller Network config page: need a text field to easily identify the purpose / use of the port.

Anyone acting as an administrator would not have to research why a given port is being used.  Many of our systems have dozens of ports. 
9 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

HA for licensing server

Both components of the licensing infrastructure (the licensing server and UIM server) require High Availability (HA) capabilities to enable zero-downtime updates for licensing software and license files.
11 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

ODE Extraction Utility: Allow creation of a Monoplex image from an extraction system running in a Sysplex environment

Background and Current Problem IBM Test Accelerator for Z (TAZ) On-Demand Environments (ODE) provides the Extraction Utility, which extracts volume information — including the SYSRES — from an on-premises z/OS environment and uses it to provision ...
16 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

Managing Input and Output of an Assembler Program Called from a COBOL

We would like to see the STUB inputs and outputs be modifiable (or at least legible for outputs) in the case of unit tests on a COBOL program, when it calls a program written in the Assembler. We've had several demonstrations of the product, and t...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Submitted

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

PS aware Stock Image

We want to provision a PS (zdnt/zvdt) that has PS aware stock image. It means tho followin is configured by tooling right after the provisioning. JES2 - MAS Shared Filesystesm among LPARs Subsystems (DB2, CICS, MQ, IMS) in datasharing ZVM is compl...
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

TAZ ODE supporting fully automated provisioning of z/VM only instances

TAZ ODE supporting fully automated provisioning of z/VM only instances to allow customers to use their existing IBM Z virtualization infrastructure to rapidly create, manage, and deprovision isolated development and testing environments. This capa...
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

Enable IBM Test Accelerator for Z On-Demand Environments Support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Linux on IBM Z

This enhancement would allow customers to centrally administer TAZ ODE environments through Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Linux on Z, simplifying operations, improving infrastructure utilization, and reducing total cost of ownership by lever...
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

function allowing the acceptance of obtained results as new expected values ​​directly from the execution results view

Hello, When we execute a testcase after a modification of the program, the obtained results are different from the expected results, to not manually change the expected results or re-execute a recording data, we think that a function to directly a...
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Submitted

Support for Variable Name Mapping / Alias Display in UI

Description: Currently, some customers using HLL/WB for COBOL development manage variable names by mapping them to Japanese (or other human-readable) aliases for improved readability and maintainability. When considering adoption of TAZ, these cus...
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Submitted

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