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Test Accelerator for Z

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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...
2 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add possibility to create director when creating unit test

When creating a new unit test you usally want it in another directory in the repo than the source (i.e. /test/<program> instead of /src/cobol) It would be an enhancment if you are not forced to create the <program> directory first but ...
2 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

Test case editor unreadable with Dark theme

The test case editor is unreadable when switching to dark theme in IDz which is used by many developer Black text on dark grey background means you have to select the text to read it
2 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
2 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 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
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Wazi Image Builder needs to support service ID's when authenticating to IBM Cloud

Wazi Image Builder needs to support service ID's when authenticating to IBM Cloud
12 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Isolated recordings for IMS/CICS

We do have both CICS and IMS. In our installation all the transactions arrive via front end channel applications (no 3270 screens/terminals), so our only way to record transactions in VTP is recording transactions coming from the channel. Besides,...
24 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

add SLES support for zD&T

Currently all of zD&T is only officially supported w/RHEL or Ubuntu - missing SLES. Clients who have standardized their IT on SLES, esp. in regulated industries, cannot run zD&T in a supported manner. It would be good to get SLES support f...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 1 Not under 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...
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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