I’ve worked with clients in the past who want to do a better job of testing z/OS as a platform, but don’t know where to start. So I’ve released a tool to give system programmers, site reliability engineers, or anyone else who wants to test z/OS at a system level a place to start: the Chaos Toolkit Extension for z/OS. The Chaos Toolkit (https://chaostoolkit.org) is a cross-platform test orchestration/automation platform, but it requires extensions for each platform it wants to interact with. So I’ve written an extension for z/OS (https://pypi.org/project/chaostoolkit-zos/). There’s a quick demo here: https://youtu.be/v-6xvAeH0p0.
I do want to emphasize that the extension is in its infancy, and between COVID-19 and two small children, it’s taken me a lot longer than I’d planned to release this. But my intention is that, over time, to get the toolkit to a point where you can easily do the same sort of basic testing that I do when I’m doing initial bringup testing of a new release of z/OS, so when you make changes to your applications, you can validate in your test environment that things still work, and your applications can tolerate failures when they do happen. If you’ve got any questions, suggestions, complaints, or whatever, feel free to reply here or contact me off-list; I’ll help as best I can. -- Kevin McKenzie External Phone: 845-435-8282, Tie-line: 8-295-8282 z/OS Test Services - Test Architect, Provisioning z/OS Hardware/Software Interlock ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
