Improve application programming and testing productivity with debugging features to ensure IMS, Db2, and WebSphere MQ applications operate properly
Overview
Enhance testing and debugging
IMS™ Batch Terminal Simulator for z/OS® helps validate application logic, IMS interfaces, teleprocessing activity, 3270 format control blocks, and database activity. By simulating application behavior and generating detailed transaction reports, it streamlines testing and debugging to improve productivity while reducing development time and costs.
Features
Streamline IMS application testing
Capture detailed reports for program execution activities, including IMS DLI call traces, Db2® call traces, WebSphere® MQ call traces, LU6.2/APPC activity, ETO status codes, and more. Centralized reporting helps simplify analysis and issue resolution.
Simulate transaction processing in batch mode and generate listings with transaction screen images, application data, user identification details, and timestamps. Audit reports provide a complete record of processed transactions for testing and validation.
Help new application programmers learn application behavior and functions by reviewing test scenarios and recorded activity traces. Detailed execution records provide practical insights that accelerate onboarding and improve understanding of IMS applications.
Run and test IMS applications from a development environment using the Eclipse interface. Common Eclipse wizards simplify configuration of runtime parameters and application libraries, helping developers execute tests efficiently and consistently.
Process multiple transactions in one step with no changes required to IMS code, control blocks, libraries, or application load modules. Flexible application test periods make application program testing easier to schedule and perform in a more stable online system in both test and production environments.
Integrate with IBM Debug Tool for z/OS® and Rational® Developer for System z® to create a unified testing and debugging environment. Combined tooling helps streamline issue investigation, improve developer productivity, and accelerate testing workflows.
Use cases
Accelerate testing and optimize operations
Support development and testing teams with tools that improve application quality, simplify test execution, reduce administrative effort, and lower resource consumption. Flexible testing capabilities help organizations deliver changes faster while controlling costs.
Help application teams test and debug IMS applications and database activity more efficiently, reducing effort and speeding issue resolution.
Enable teams to use flexible test periods that simplify scheduling, improve operational efficiency, and reduce testing disruptions.
Help administrators spend less time setting up test environments while reducing the IMS resources needed to support testing.
Allow teams to validate applications in a lightweight test environment, helping reduce costs and minimize MIPS consumption.
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IBM IMS is a high-performance hierarchical database and transaction manager for z/OS designed to secure and scale critical business applications.