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    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

    Data Capture outside of mainframe

    During ITBz testing there is a recording file that gets created. The recording does not seem to capture data from outside the mainframe. KB would like to see data from all the systems that are in the flow.
    4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Functional Testing 0 Needs more information

    Soruce code quality management through code coverage for M/F's souce code

    KB performs code coverage for all source code and reports on this coverage to manage source code quality. However, despite the availability of IDz, mainframes are unable to utilize code coverage due to limitations in KB's framework-based common de...
    4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Functional Testing 0 Needs more information

    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, ...
    10 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    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...
    10 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...
    10 months 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...
    11 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Debug during record to easier create "hard to reach" testcases

    Adding the possibity to record during a debug session will enable the user to create testcase that is hard to recreate otherwise, that normal recording or test case generation will not reach. It's also easier to add testdata that is more relevant ...
    6 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    override IPL string via API

    I want to be able to override IPL string in start API
    6 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 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...
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Not under consideration

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