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Test Accelerator for Z

Detail information with intuitive interface in EIT's command flow

Current output has too simple and not much value for developer. Currently, only the first-level subroutine of the program is shown, but it would be nice to show the detailed modules for each subroutine in more detail, and the call structure and pa...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Needs more information

To limt recording scope with sub-pgm and sub-tran to minimize recording amount and easy to analyze

The levels at which recording units can be specified when recording are currently PGM ID, TRAN ID, TERMINAL ID, USER ID, etc., but customer wants limit by specifying sub module of program and transaction to analyze recording easiliy and to minimiz...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Functional Testing Not under consideration

Intuitive Editing for recording data

When recording, capture the "internal standard text(commarea data)" of CICS, recognize the fields in the plaintext of commarea data and show them schematically(graphically) to the user, and the user can modify specific field values ​​and re-run th...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Functional Testing Needs more information

Speedup the release of license after stopping a ZD&T instance

zD&T License server release license too slow when an instance is stopped.Shutdown takes approx,. 1 min, 20 secs. After the shutdown it takes more than 6 minutes before the license are released. In total almost 8 minutes.This could lead to that...
almost 3 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z Planned for future release

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
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 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.
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 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.
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 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.
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Future 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 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
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Under review

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