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Early Development Testing

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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...
14 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 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...
19 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

Unable to capture test data for batch COBOL when the program abends and code coverage is enabled

A controlled abend in the main module will not import the data necessary to get to the replay step.The abend is the cause; but the abend needs to be generated to get a full result for the test case and code coverage. For example, on an error with ...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Under review

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
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 1 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 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.
12 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 3 Future consideration

Handle controlled abends

Having a main program running, calling a subprogram where the subprogram does an controlled abend is causing issue in TAZ -EDT When recording a program where the abend occurs in a submodule, the correct data is recorded, but during replay the prog...
5 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

The error "EQA4093E A valid DBRM file for PROGXYZ is not found" is raised during replay even though the test is successful

When replaying a DB2 COBOL testcase, the error "EQA4093E A valid DBRM file for PROGXYZ is not found" can be seen in the job output but the replay is actually successful and then job ends with a return code 0. The error message can be resolved by a...
5 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

Unable to change File Status in test run

Testing code with any status really involving a file (not found, invalid record length etc.) for a better code coverage report by having test cases on those scenarios for a simple programs that really has not many lines would end up creating test ...
6 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 1 Under review

Better documentation of debugger requirements

it is not clear in the documentation that TAZ has requirements to the configuration of the debug component. Specifically that Delayed Debug cannot be enabled i EQAOPTS. If it is a early development testing recording will fail as it cannot located ...
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted