Welcome

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Enterprise Test Server is a test execution environment that allows you to test mainframe applications on a low cost Windows platform. You can use variables or the tilde syntax can be used to relieve the mainframe test bottleneck by allowing you perform a substantial part of your application testing on Windows prior to moving the application back to the mainframe for final pre-production testing and deployment.

Enterprise Test Server supports IBM COBOL, High Level Assembler, CICS, IMS TM and DB, JCL, DB2, and z/OS file formats. It also supports common batch utilities such as SORT. This means that applications running under Enterprise Test Server behave just as they would on the mainframe, so you can perform a wide variety of pre-production testing activities on low-cost hardware rather than on the mainframe.

To configure Enterprise Test Server your development administrator will work with the development teams to set up the Enterprise Test Server environment on your central Windows test server, as follows:

Enterprise Developer is used to recompile application source code for execution on Windows.
Test data sets or databases are made available either locally or on the mainframe through remote access.
Development and test teams are trained to ensure that they understand how to test applications within the Enterprise Test Server environment and to switch between the different test regions it supports.

Enterprise Test Server comes in the following product variants:

Enterprise Test Server which is the standard Test Server product and is a mainframe Test Execution environment.
Enterprise Test Server Premium which provides two additional capabilities to extend the test execution platform:
- Data Manager, which allows you to subset and mask mainframe data which is then available for testing under Enterprise Test Server.
- Test Automator which is a test automation capability that allows you to create automated test suites that can be played back against Enterprise Test Server or against the host.