Product Overview

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^® MVS^®, IBM^® COBOL, IBM^® Enterprise PL/I for z/OS^®, IBM^® Assembler, IBM^® CICS^®, IBM^® IMS^®, IBM^® JCL, IBM^® DB2^®, IBM^® z/OS^®, IBM^® WebSphere MQ^®, and IBM^® zEnterprise^® file formats and common batch utilities, including SORT. This means that you can develop and maintain the core mainframe online and batch applications under Enterprise Test Server. You can then deploy these applications back on the mainframe or migrate them onto one of the Micro Focus Linux, UNIX or Windows-based production platforms.

Note: IBM, MVS, Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, CICS, DB2, z/OS, WebSphere MQ, and zEnterprise are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation, registered in many jurisdictions worldwide.

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 also provides Test Automator. Use Test Automator to automate testing by creating automated test suites you can play back against Enterprise Test Server or against the host.