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Test Accelerator for Z

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Speed up process for provisioning of subsequent zOS images after have provisioned first one

When you use zODT in TAZ to provision the first zOS Image, you create for example the supplied stock zOS image, which is stored on a designated storage server. Then you provision the first one to for example a target Linux LPAR on z, this takes so...
1 day ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 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 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Program Type in results should be accurate

If you specify DB2 or IMS and run the testcase, the zUnit results editor always shows BTCH, meaning the options DB2 or IMS which you chose in the generation phase are not reflected in the results
14 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

document recomandation on linux lpar spec to host 10s, 50s, 100s of ZVDT instances

I'm looking for recomandations for how many LPARs, how much memory, how many IFLs, what linux kernel parameters needs to be adjusted to run dozen ZVDT instances 50+ ZVDT instances 100-500 ZVDT instances
12 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Submitted

Need a step by step tutorial for Unit testing with local projects

The documentation has some samples but with remote datasets. It will be helpful to have a tutorial with local projects as there is no zUnit property groups and building the testcase is different.
14 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support 66 levels in Unit testing

66 levels are valid COBOL definitions for working storage and linkage areas, and prevents zUnit from generating test cases for programs containing these.
14 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support for EXTERNAL data

zUnit should support data items declared as EXTERNAL. If a data item in COBOL is declared as EXTERNAL it can be used to pass data from a calling program to a subprogram, and therefore should be recorded as if it is a parameter. Also when calling a...
14 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

Validate playbackfile in DTR runtime

When pushing a zUnit testcase in a pipeline (and maybe other places) the playbackfile isn't validating with possible result a testcase is run forever (or until canceled). The functionality to validate the playback file is present in ZVTP and would...
14 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

make userdefined extensions for unit testing thru preferences

zUnit now only is available for a few extensions for cobol sources. As we do have a few more extensions for cobol sources, we would like to be able to add our extensions to a preference so zUnit also can act on these extensions. We are aware that ...
14 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support for SYSIN and ACCEPT during recording and replay

If a COBOL program performs an ACCEPT on SYSIN then its replay fails with an abend U4038. It works if a SYSIN DD is added during replay. In a pipeline build, it will be better if the Dynamic Test Runner could record and replay SYSIN DD like any o...
14 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

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