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Test Accelerator for Z

Allow TAZ to capture calls that get the current date for replay

There are programs that perform logic based on the current date. For example, transaction processing. The way to handle the transaction could vary based on when the transaction was received. When capturing the original test case, the recording cap...
12 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Submitted

function allowing the acceptance of obtained results as new expected values ​​directly from the execution results view

Hello, When we execute a testcase after a modification of the program, the obtained results are different from the expected results, to not manually change the expected results or re-execute a recording data, we think that a function to directly a...
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Submitted

DBCS character set(1364) support

All EBCDIC data is interpreted as Codepage-1047 (English) and then converted back to UTF-8, which is sometimes inaccurate. if 1364 DBCS character set is supported, then this problem can be solved.
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Future consideration

Support for Variable Name Mapping / Alias Display in UI

Description: Currently, some customers using HLL/WB for COBOL development manage variable names by mapping them to Japanese (or other human-readable) aliases for improved readability and maintainability. When considering adoption of TAZ, these cus...
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 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 3 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Not under consideration

Reduce volume size required during image creation

When TAz's On Demand discovery process is identifying all the volumes required for the image creation it will capture all space on each volume where a required data set is located. In some cases, there may be only 1 smaller dataset on a large volu...
8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments Submitted

Add XML Schema Validation Support for XML PARSE Operations in Early Development Test

IBM Test Accelerator for Z (TAZ) testcase replay fails when executing COBOL XML PARSE statements with the VALIDATING WITH FILE clause. TAZ does not capture or record XML schema validation logic during testcase recording, resulting in missing DD st...
8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Submitted

Improve Error Handling for Files Without Extensions in Unit Test Creation

Current Behavior: When creating a new unit test from a recording in TAZ and selecting a source file without an extension, a dialog error is displayed: An error has occurred. See error log for more details. Cannot invoke "java.lang.String.equals(ja...
9 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Submitted

Support of Assembler Subprogram Calls

Currently when recording in zUnit, any subprogram calls to assembler programs are not recorded. For more complete testing of a program it would be beneficial for zUnit to also intercept and record assembler subprogram calls.
almost 2 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Future 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...
almost 2 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Future consideration

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