Testing applications on z/OS®
You can test applications on IBM® z/OS® systems by using the capabilities that are supported for mainframes by Rational® Integration Tester.
Rational® Integration Tester supports the following features when running on z/OS® V2.1 and V2.2:
- CICS® Transaction Gateway recording, stubbing, and test execution.
- CICS® Transaction Server Distributed Program Link (DPL) recording and stubbing.
- CICS® IP interconnectivity (IPIC) recording and testing.
- CICS® web services.
- IMS™ Connect transport.
- IMS™ Connect recording.
- WebSphere® MQ queue manager message recording from either a single queue manager or from a queue sharing group.
- IBM® z/OS® Connect Profile.
- Sift-and-pass-through functionality. See Sift-and-pass-through capability
For more information about z/OS®, CICS®, and IMS™, refer to the IBM® z/OS® basic skills education knowledge center.
For information about recording requests from a non-z/OS® queue manager to a queue on a z/OS® queue manager and virtualizing replies from z/OS® to a queue on a non-z/OS® queue manager without installing the HRVMMQF exit, see Using WebSphere MQ transports on distributed platforms to test traffic to and from WebSphere MQ on z/OS.
Hardware requirements
The z/OS® features that are supported by Rational® Integration Tester do not require any special hardware.
For information about hardware requirements for Rational® Integration Tester, see System Requirements
For information about hardware requirements for z/OS®, refer to the IBM® z/OS® basic skills education knowledge center.
Software requirements
To use z/OS® features with Rational® Integration Tester, specific software is required.
The following software versions are supported:
- IBM® WebSphere® MQ V8.0 or later.
- CICS® Transaction Gateway V8.0, V8.1, V9.0, 9.1, and 9.2.
- CICS® Transaction Server versions 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5 for IPIC and DPL.
- IMS™ V12, V13, and V14 (includes IMS™ Connect) with the Java API included in IBM IMS Enterprise Suite V2.1, V3.1, or V3.2.
You must have installed and configured z/OS®. For more information, refer to the IBM® z/OS® basic skills education knowledge center.
You must have installed and configured Rational® Integration Tester and IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel.
The following table describes additional requirements to perform specific tests:
Test actions | Install |
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Recording IMS™ Connect traffic by using the HTTP/TCP proxy | IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel HTTP/TCP proxies |
Recording inbound or outbound IPIC communications to or from CICS® programs | |
Recording inbound or outbound web service calls to or from CICS® programs | |
Running tests and stubs on non-local systems | Rational® Integration Tester Agent |
Tasks | More information |
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Setting up and using CICS® Transaction Gateway transports |
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Requirements for recording and virtualizing with CICS® Transaction Gateway |
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Requirements for recording and virtualizing DPL calls in a CICS® Transaction Server |
Recording and virtualizing DPL calls in CICS Transaction Server |
Recording and testing IPIC communications to a CICS® Transaction Server |
Configuring Rational Integration Tester for recording and virtualizing IPIC traffic |