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Early Development Testing

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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

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.
8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 3 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...
15 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

Support of Assembler Subprogram Calls

Currently when recording in zUnit, any subprogram calls to assembler programs are not recorded. For more complete testing of a program it would be beneficial for zUnit to also intercept and record assembler subprogram calls.
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

Test Case result viewer should be codepage aware

If you are working with national codepages – ex IBM-278 for Swedish – then files in UTF8, that is for instance local files from Git can contain national characters. An example of this is Å. Å in IBM-278 has the same hex value (0x5b) as $ in US cod...
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

Unable to change File Status in test run

Testing code with any status really involving a file (not found, invalid record length etc.) for a better code coverage report by having test cases on those scenarios for a simple programs that really has not many lines would end up creating test ...
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 1 Under review

Support recording from both batch and IMS TM

When recording testdata for a submodule/program that could be included in both a batch and IMS TM program you are forced to choose one or the other since all recordings after is made with the same method. And you want to keep all tests for a modul...
9 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Under review

Should be able to record IMS TM without closing recording window

When recording an IMS TM the window controlling the recording needs på be closed in order to use IMS Explorer test case project (or 3270 emulator) in IDz to start the transaction(s) to be recorded. It's possible to close it and then stop the recor...
9 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

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