What's new in IBM Test Accelerator for Z

Each release lists the participating components under its respective version. For components not included in a particular release, refer to earlier versions for their latest updates.

v2.3.0

Released: November 21, 2025

Early Development Testing (including Unit Test and Component Test) changes
  • Addressed potential security vulnerabilities.
  • Fixed APARs:
    APAR Description
    PH68616 TAZ FAILS WITH AN ERROR TAZED0745E DURING RECORDING WHEN PARSING A JCL WITH NO STEPLIB DD.
    PH68716 TAZ 2.0.X - EQAOPTS CANNOT HAVE DLAYDBG ENABLED.
    PH68792 TAZ FAILS TO IMPORT AN IMS RECORDING WITH THE ERROR: CANNOT INVOKE "JAVA.UTIL.SET.ISEMPTY()".
  • The latest release of EDT (v2.3.0) can be downloaded from Passport Advantage.
Early Development Testing on VS Code changes
  • Added support for creating unit tests for IMS Batch with IMS DB and IMS Batch with DB2 programs.
  • Added capability to search all mock and assert variables and their values from the data editor search bar.
  • Enhanced error handling of .ztest files. When a .ztest file contains errors, the details are now displayed in the Problems tab within VS Code.
  • Improved how test point names are generated. The names will be shorter and less ambiguous.
  • Data collector data UI: Introduced a loader icon during UI loading and resolved multiple issues related to displaying data files.
Functional Testing changes
  • Added functionality to check license status.
IBM® Enterprise Edition for Galasa changes
  • Now based on Galasa 0.44.0.
  • A zapp.yaml file can now be used as the Galasa Configuration Property Store (CPS).
  • The Enterprise Edition extensions now validate the IBM Test Accelerator for Z license before they can be used.
  • The Enterprise Edition extensions are now hosted on Maven Central.
On-Demand Environments changes
  • The latest release of On-Demand Environments changes - stock image changes can be downloaded from Passport Advantage.

v2.2.0

Released: October 24, 2025

Early Development Testing (including Unit Test and Component Test) changes
  • Early Development Testing on Eclipse now supports installing through IBM Installation manager. For more information see Installing Early Development Testing in Eclipse.
  • The latest release of EDT (v2.2.0) can be downloaded from Passport Advantage.
  • Fixed APARs:
    APAR Description
    PH67844 TAZ 1.X: GENERATING UNIT TEST FOR CICS PROGRAM FAILS WITH ERROR:TAZED2506E; TAZED0108E COBOL PARSER ERROR.
    PH68283 TAZED0733E ("IMPORTING ... FAILED") DUE TO *.TC FILESIZE (5MB).
    PH68051 ENABLING TAZ LOCAL PROJECT SETTING FOR UNIT TEST WILL RESULT IN EXCEPTION IF THE SAME PROPERTIES ARE REVISITED IN THE PROJECT.
Early Development Testing on VS Code changes
  • Added support for creating unit tests for IMS Batch with IMS DB and IMS Batch with DB2 programs.
  • Added capability to search all mock and assert variables and their values from the data editor search bar.
  • Enhanced error handling of .ztest files. When a .ztest file contains errors, the details are now displayed in the Problems tab within VS Code.
  • Improved how test point names are generated. The names will be shorter and less ambiguous.
  • Data collector data UI: Introduced a loader icon during UI loading and resolved multiple issues related to displaying data files.
Functional Testing changes
  • Added ability to generate functional tests from natural language in a chat interface using Functional Testing Agent.
  • Added ability to generate functional tests for all possible functionalities in an application using Functional Testing Agent.
  • Added knowledge graph preparation feature to enhance test generation quality using static analysis of map files.

v2.1.0

Released: September 26, 2025

Early Development Testing (including Unit Test and Component Test) changes
  • The latest release of EDT (v2.1.0) can be downloaded from Passport Advantage.
  • Fixed APARs:
    APAR Description
    PH67871 TAZED0751E AND NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION WHEN IMPORTING RECORDED DATA.
    PH67756 TAZ 1.X: GENERATING UNIT TEST FOR CICS PROGRAM FAILS WITH ERROR:TAZED2506E;IWAA0645E: THE IMPORT OF THE COBOL SOURCE HAS FAILED
    PH68076 TAZED0734W UNIT TEST WAS UNABLE TO DETECT THE PCB INDEX.
Early Development Testing on VS Code changes
  • Added support for creating unit tests for IMS Batch with IMS DB and IMS Batch with DB2 programs.
  • Added capability to search all mock and assert variables and their values from the data editor search bar.
  • Enhanced error handling of .ztest files. When a .ztest file contains errors, the details are now displayed in the Problems tab within VS Code.
  • Improved how test point names are generated. The names will be shorter and less ambiguous.
  • Data collector data UI: Introduced a loader icon during UI loading and resolved multiple issues related to displaying data files.
Functional Testing changes
  • Added support for Galasa testing in VS Code without command line.
  • Added command for generating Galasa CPS properties files based on Zapp profile.
  • Added support for Information Management System (IMS) Database Description Block (DBD) files.
On-Demand Environments changes
  • The latest release of On-Demand Environments changes (v2.1.0) can be downloaded from Passport Advantage.
  • PTF APAR Description
    UO04691 PH67905 Creating a component will fail with ABEND 0C4 if the user use OMPROUTE config to replace static TCP/IP BEGINROUTES definitions.
  • Use the PTF number to view the details and get it from ShopZ. For more details, refer to Ordering z/OS service via ShopZ.

v2.0.0

Released: August 22, 2025

Early Development Testing (including Unit Test and Component Test) changes
  • Early Development Testing for z/OS is now renamed to Early Development Testing.
  • Early Integration Testing is now renamed to Component Test.
  • The Early Development Testing extension for Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension supports unit testing for the following:
    • IBM Enterprise COBOL 4.1 and later.
    • IBM CICS Transaction Server with calls to IBM Db2 for IBM z/OS.
    • Program-to-program calls for CICS Transaction Server, IBM IMS, and Batch.
    • Batch, including Db2 for z/OS is available in preview mode.
    • IMS Transaction Manager (IMS/TM), including Db2 for z/OS.
  • The latest release of EDT (v2.0.0) can be downloaded from Passport Advantage.
  • Fixed APARs:
    APAR Description
    PH67710 GENERATE TEST CASE FAILS WITH NUMBERFORMATEXCEPTION.
    PH67603 RECORDING OF CICS PROGRAM FAILS WITH "MISSING BZUCFG FILE" ERROR.
    PH66515 TEST ACCELERATOR FOR Z 1.0.2 JCL PARSING ERRORS AND GENERATED JCL COMMENTS.
    PH67097 CODE COVERAGE REPORT FAILS WHEN UNINITIALIZED FILLER AREA.
    PH67181 UNIT TEST ASKS FOR PCB INDEXES UNNECESSARILY.
    PH67342 TAZED2506E REPORTED WHILE OPENING THE TEST CASE EDITOR.
    PH67343 COMPILER ERROR IN GENERATED TEST CASE.
Functional Testing changes
  • Renamed extension from Integration Test Builder for z/OS to Functional Testing.
  • Additional Information Management System (IMS) Transaction Manager (TM) support including Message Format Service (MFS) support.
  • Added initial IMS Database (DB) support.
  • Updated recording UI with V3 recording support.
  • Enhanced the recording experience with Z Application (ZAPP) file support.
  • Ability to perform maven build and execute Galasa test from VS code UI.
  • Added support for user to specify up to one code page to be used while interpreting screen data when generating Galasa test.
  • The latest release of Functional Testing (v2.0.0) can be downloaded from Passport Advantage.
IBM Enterprise Edition for Galasa changes
  • Renamed from Distribution for Galasa to IBM Enterprise Edition for Galasa.
  • Now based on Galasa 0.43.0.
  • New DLI Manager supports reading from IMS DB (DLI) databases.
  • Credentials can now be stored in the OS-managed secure storage.
  • Multi-factor authentication is now supported when connecting to z/OS applications.
On-Demand Environments changes
  • Renamed from On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS to On-Demand Environments.
  • A complete role-based access control (RBAC) interface for artifacts created within the tooling interface.
  • An instance controller for easier and better support of controlling your z/OS instance.
  • The latest release of On-Demand Environments changes (v2.0.0) can be downloaded from Passport Advantage.