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    During the report playback include the load library where the program was executed in the report

    We need information in the playback results about the loadlib where the program was executed
    7 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Under review

    Include an option during the playback to display the input/output data

    Some developers would like to save the result as a document that the test didn't fail and what kind of input and output data was in use.
    7 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Under review

    allow to specify non-contiguous pool of IPs and ports

    We have a subnet that has certain IP addresses already assigned. So we cannot define the whole subnet in ODTZ when defining a target environment. I need to define a non-contiguous pool of IPs and ports.
    8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    Allow an IMS unit test case to be able to record data when target program is in message processing loop

    If you use Test Accelerator for Z to create a unit test case for an IMS tran/program, if the program is in a loop where it waits for a msg, then processes the IMS msg, then goes back to wait for the next msg, you need to stop the IMS batch job and...
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 1 Future consideration

    Improve performance for running code review by JCL

    When running a code review/sowftware analyze in IDz it takes miliseconds, when running it by JCL the same code review takes about a minute. Most of the time seems to isolated to starting up a headless instance of eclipse, even when implementing ca...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

    Test Data Generation support for COBOL statements in CICS application

    Without support for COBOL statment(perform, inspect), KB can't use Test Data Generation function. Especially, the limit of "INSPECT, PERFORM, UNSTRING" status should be removed or resolved.
    9 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Sysplex support

    KB is using TSQ, NCS(Name Count Server) in CICS COBOL applicaion in sysplex environment and so, to test COBOL program using ODT, Syspolex support is essential to use TSQ, NCS.
    9 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    IDZ Software Analyzer Custom Rules - Create Rule for JCL components for JCL files and Copybook components for Copybook files

    The java package for creating COBOL custom rules under IDZ Software Analyzer only support cobol components. An interface is created for Copybook components but no class is created for Copybook components. This is similar to the case for JCL compon...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

    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 ...
    10 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Under review

    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
    10 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Under review

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