Welcome to System z® Platform Test, also known as Integration Test. Our organization consists of various teams, including:
A team of z/OS testers and system programmers run a Parallel Sysplex on which we perform the final verification of a z/OS release before it becomes generally available to customers. As we do our testing, we gather experiences, hints, tips, and recommendations and publish them as the System z Platform Test Report for z/OS and Linux Virtual Servers.
We publish a new test report with each new release of z/OS, and a mid-release update. We also provide interim feature articles describing our most recent test experiences in between each test report.
Find test reports and interim updates in test report library
The z/OS System z Parallel Sysplex Recovery (GA22-7286-01) report describes our experiences performing recovery actions in our Parallel Sysplex environment.
Find test reports and interim updates in test report library
The Linux Virtual Server team’s primary responsibility is to emulate leading-edge customer environments, workloads, and activities. This includes running Linux native on System z and as a z/VM guest in a heterogeneous Linux server environment.
After general availability (GA), testing of z/OS continues through Consolidated Service Test (CST), where z/OS service along with key subsystems and tools service continues to be tested together. CST recommends service on a quarterly and monthly basis with published results.
Integration test is just one phase of the testing that IBM performs on the z/OS operating system. For information about the complete IBM test strategy for z/OS, see the IBM Systems Journal article,
Read Testing z/OS: The premier operating system for IBM's System z server
What we offer
New! Recently we released a new edition of our test report which describes our experiences testing on z/OS V1R13. This new edition, titled z/OS V1R13 System z Platform Test Report for z/OS and Linux Virtual Servers, is located in our Test Report Library.
