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

post SMPE instructions for ADCD products

Hi I would like to know post-SMPE instructions for all the ADCD products so I can do the maintenance of products I'm entitled to via shop z. Because I don't want to provision a new instance with a new level of ADCD and migrate my data. Regards Vitek
17 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

cohost manualy generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC

Hi we would like to reduce the number of licensing servers to reduce maintenance overhead and complexity of our environment. Currently, zdnt license server does not allow cohosting manually generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC. When we...
17 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Not under 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
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for TYPES LOB (BLOB, CLOB...)

Support of fields with SQL types LOB (BLOB, CLOB...) .Example: 10 'A'-TXT-NACHM-GRND USAGE SQL TYPE IS XML AS CLOB(10000) OCCURS 1.
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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28 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Integration Test Builder for z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 1 Future consideration

document recomandation on linux lpar spec to host 10s, 50s, 100s of ZVDT instances

I'm looking for recomandations for how many LPARs, how much memory, how many IFLs, what linux kernel parameters needs to be adjusted to run dozen ZVDT instances 50+ ZVDT instances 100-500 ZVDT instances
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0

Need a step by step tutorial for Unit testing with local projects

The documentation has some samples but with remote datasets. It will be helpful to have a tutorial with local projects as there is no zUnit property groups and building the testcase is different.
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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