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    Add columns to KPM CICS table

    Add the following columns to KPMC_MON_TRAN_H (as in CICS_TRANSACTION_H) :- BMS_REQUESTS_TOTAL to quickly identify 3270 transactions- SYNCPOINT_REQUESTS- RESPONSE_MAX_SEC and CPU_MAX_SEC to identify a possible anomaly during the interval (the peaks...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

    COMMIT frequency in PURGE

    Include an COMMIT frequency parameter in PURGE command. We have large tablespaces and an huge retetion (6 months to 2 years depending of the table). When the PURGE execute the job takes more or less 5 hours, causing the resources get locked and ti...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

    zUnit: PLI-Support for specifying an expected value for a return statement such as RETURN(Expression)

    The zUnit test case editor does not allow specifying an expected value for a return statement like RETURN(Expression).
    over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

    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 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 4 Not under consideration

    Need a step by step tutorial for zUnit with local projects

    The documentation has some samples but with remote datasets. It will be helpful to have a tutorial with local projects as there is no zUnit property groups and building the testcase is different.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

    TDS SMF105

    It would be really nice if TDS included SMF105. TDS is a powerful performance reporting tool, which customers have used to improve their reporting capabilities. SMF105 is important for customer with GDPS/GM environments.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1

    ZUnit doesn't support status file variables

    when we create a test case for a program who manipulates files, the file status variables are not imported inside the input output variables
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

    Drop & recreate DB2 views only when tables change

    Currently the DB2 views are dropped and recreated each time a component is re-installed. Doing so removes security every time an install job is executed. This incentivizes us to update less often because we have to open requests to security to gra...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

    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 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 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 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

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