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zUnit

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zUnit: support for nested programs

We have some Cobol programs in which nested programs are used. Unfortunately, this is not currently supported by zUnit.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Not under consideration

zUnit to open test Editor quicker

Our applications typically have many programs and big copys. This causes that opening the zUnit Test Editor is very slow. With a certain program it took more than 2 minutes when opening with IDz v15.0.5 client, and around 30 seconds with IDz v16 c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Add option to test cases and that should be automatically saved in workspace

Currently Debuggger is not integrated with ZUnit.If we need to create test cases for zUnit, we have to go out of our way from our daily routine and do a lot of painful preparation and do the test cases in such a way that zUnit will give some resul...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

automatic recall of migrated datasets when using zUnit

zUnit creates some dediated files on mainframe, but if those datasets get migrated, zUnit is not able to recall these datasets automatically. Can this be provided ?
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Test Case result viewer should be codepage aware

If you are working with national codepages – ex IBM-278 for Swedish – then files in UTF8, that is for instance local files from Git can contain national characters. An example of this is Å. Å in IBM-278 has the same hex value (0x5b) as $ in US cod...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Show differences in Runner result view in user friendly way

In many cases the difference in result shows hexadecimal data in the Runner Results viewer The interpretation of the available information is very difficult Currently there seems to be a workaround via changing Test Result Format to "result deta...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

make userdefined extensions for using zUnit available thru preferences

zUnit now only is available for a few extensions for cobol sources. As we do have a few more extensions for cobol sources, we would like to be able to add our extensions to a preference so zUnit also can act on these extensions. We are aware that ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

zUNIT: add optional field that the user would type in the CICS region for Recording Service

Now that CICS support is implementing the CICS Recording Service on other CICS regions I noticed that IDZ has no way of differentiating which URL is pointing to which CICS region. The only identifier is the port number but there’s no way to know w...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Linkage Parameter issue for testing a program via zUnit.

- Program name: LBTBDAYS- It's a sub-program where it is called by main-program by passing the parameters. - Linkage section parameter list - LK-CBTBDAYS-PARAMETER-LIST defined as PIC X(64). - In the procedure division of the sub-program, this fie...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

TestCase Editor of zUnit capability enchancement for a program with huge number of I/F data items

TestCase Editor of zUnit capability enchancement for a program with huge number of I/F data item.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

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