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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 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under 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 3 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 6 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 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under 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 3 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 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Add additional IDAA fields to transaction information

Please add new fields for the number of create, drop, open, commit, and rollback statements a transaction performed in the following tables: DB2_USER_TRAN_H/D/WDB2_TRANSACTION_D/WA_DB2_USERTRAN_IA_DB2_UT_IDAA_I Each field is from the DB2 accountin...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

DB2 transaction CONNECT_NAME and CONNECT_SYS_TYPE

Please add to all tables that store DB2 transaction information in the "DB2" & "Analytics - DB2" components, columns for connection type and connection name, populated from SMF 101 record fields QWHCATYP and QWHCCN (respectively). We have cust...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

TDS UAC Tolerance for Broadcom CA IDMS 19

Processing SMF generated data out of IDMS 19 no longer selects matches of out of the CIMSTBL list.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Process SMF Type 23

I need to collect some metrics about SMF Logstreams activity. Could you please provide a component which process those records ?
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration