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 to relieve the mainframe test bottleneck by allowing you to 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 Test Server comes in the following product variants: