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Test Accelerator for Z

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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
    over 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.
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 3 Future consideration

    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.
    over 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...
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Track TAZ Early Development user licenses - number of inactive, active licenses and frequency

    The customer is requesting IBM to provide detailed reporting on active and inactive user list by frequency. This would help them manage license compliance so they can validate entitlements, plan renewals, and manage budgets effectively. The cust...
    6 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    support other Linux distribution for the tool server

    Actually, when you want to install ODTz, the tool server needs to be an Ubuntu distribution.But, in our company, the policy is to install only RHEL. So, can you add other type of distribution in your supported base? RHEL, SUSE, ...
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Support pointer item and pointer area as parameters of a sub program call

    We cannot use zUnit for our BMP modules! We use IMS as our transaction manager, so the majority of our batch modules are BMP’s.Almost 100% of our modules use AIBTDLI.Almost all of our modules use the use the same (company) standard.After the AIBTD...
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 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
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Only able to record testcases from a single loadmodule

    We are having the same program linked into multiple loadmodules. We would like to record testcases from all loadmodules, but after the first recording, the record dialogue has the Program name locked. And according to instrcuctions, the "Program n...
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

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