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Test Accelerator for Z

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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.
9 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Submitted

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

support other Linux distribution for the tool server

Actually, when you want to install ODTz, the tool server needs to be an Ubuntu distribution.But, in our company, the policy is to install only RHEL. So, can you add other type of distribution in your supported base? RHEL, SUSE, ...
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support recording from both batch and IMS TM

When recording testdata for a submodule/program that could be included in both a batch and IMS TM program you are forced to choose one or the other since all recordings after is made with the same method. And you want to keep all tests for a modul...
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Should be able to record IMS TM without closing recording window

When recording an IMS TM the window controlling the recording needs på be closed in order to use IMS Explorer test case project (or 3270 emulator) in IDz to start the transaction(s) to be recorded. It's possible to close it and then stop the recor...
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 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" status should be removed or resolved.
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Needs more information

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.
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Needs more information

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.
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support pointer item and pointer area as parameters of a sub program call

We cannot use zUnit for our BMP modules! We use IMS as our transaction manager, so the majority of our batch modules are BMP’s.Almost 100% of our modules use AIBTDLI.Almost all of our modules use the use the same (company) standard.After the AIBTD...
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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