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Ability to start and stop the z/OS instance from the ZVDT webui

Multiple developers will need to launch these images from a ui and this would be a great convenience to provide this feature
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

Remove 32 bit files from zD&T Linux targets

These files are part of the distribution/installation on the ZD&T targets: /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/libMD5CHAP.so /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/PwdGenUtility /opt/safenet_sentinel/common...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

Offer the creation of the user to manage the zVDT instance when the instance is deployed. (ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc)

When a new zPDT instance is deployed by using zVDT GUI, it requires an user created in the host system in advance to manage this new instance (usually ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc). We suggest to create the user as part of deploy process instead of expec...
almost 2 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

HSBC UK - VTP Recording and/or Replay Filter Enhancement

VTP RFE: Can VTP limit the recording to only the application-owned modules necessary for the test scope using either include or exclude filter? Then at REPLAY, VTP only executes the selected application-ownedprograms that have been recorded and it...
over 4 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 1 Future consideration

ZD&T documentation about scenario where ZD&T Agent changed after deployment

Provide documentation or technote about the scenario where the ZD&T Agent changed or no longer available after image deployment. How to upgrade existing ZD&T target image? How to replace (if possible) the ZD&T agent?
over 4 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z 2 Planned for future release

Enable recording for Cobol VS II

We are in a process to migrate from Cobol II to Enterprise Cobol and zVTP would be a great resource to help us test but we can't record using Cobol II, we've got an abend S0C4 during the recording.
11 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

PLI record support for QSAM

Currently the QSAM support does apply only for Cobol, we'd like to see this feature also available on PLI.
11 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

Show differences in Runner result view in user friendly way

In many cases the difference in result shows hexadecimal data in the Runner Results viewer The interpretation of the available information is very difficult Currently there seems to be a workaround via changing Test Result Format to "result deta...
12 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

automatic recall of migrated datasets when using TAZ EDTz

Previous product into - zUnit creates some dediated files on mainframe, but if those datasets get migrated, zUnit is not able to recall these datasets automatically. Can this be provided ?
12 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

Unit Testing: Filter option for displaying fields in the Test Case Editor

In the Test Case Editor, all fields defined in the program and/or in the Copybook are displayed. Both the referenced and the unused fields are presented, which leads to the fact that with a compatible extension of Copybooks (and thus to a multipli...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 1 Future consideration