Webinar: Solve your mainframe testing challenges with APT

APT: the solution that unlocks mainframe testing

Mainframe testing often stalls due to long windows, shared environments, and sensitive data. APT changes that by bringing shift-left to the core: more tests, earlier, with less risk and lower cost per execution.

What is APT and how does it work?

APT automates test-environment preparation for z/OS: it orchestrates datasets and catalogs, generates or masks test data, enables isolated executions, and provides stubs/mocks for external services (CICS, Db2, MQ, APIs). It integrates with your CI/CD pipelines to trigger tests on each commit, validate JCL, and simulate before submit. The team gets early feedback without blocking production.

Key benefits

• Shorter cycle time: environments ready in minutes and parallel tests.
• Fewer production failures: early validation and pre-submit simulation.
• MIPS and license savings: fewer reruns and unnecessary executions.
• Secure data: masking and reproducible synthetic subsets.
• End-to-end traceability: who tested what and with which data.
• Integration with Jira/Git/Jenkins.

Customer use cases we have seen

• Automated regression for critical batch chains before every release.
• CICS/Db2 integration tests with stubs for unavailable dependencies.
• Lightweight data cloning so multiple squads don’t step on each other.
• Smoke tests per pull request and quality gates in CI/CD.

Metrics that matter

• Test coverage by module/process.
• Lead time from commit to verified build.
• % of defects caught before QA and rework avoided.
• MIPS saved by eliminating reruns.
• Environment preparation time vs. baseline.

How to adopt it without friction

• Assessment: inventory of jobs, data, and dependencies + metric baseline.
• 30-day pilot: a high-impact business flow with clear KPIs.
• Phased scale-up: environment templates, automation, and governance.

Mainframe modernization doesn’t start or end with migration -it accelerates when you test more and better, earlier. With APT, your team frees capacity, reduces risk, and gains speed.

Want to see APT running with your jobs? Request a mainframe testing assessment with AZABAZ and launch your first pilot with visible ROI.

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