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Early Development Testing for z/OS

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Input file with >7000 lines leads to JAVA heap issue

Large input file in zUNIT with number of lines ( > 7000 lines ) leads to issue. Need solution or best practice to work with large input files. IBM CASE: TS009275317
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support of Assembler Subprogram Calls

Currently when recording in zUnit, any subprogram calls to assembler programs are not recorded. For more complete testing of a program it would be beneficial for zUnit to also intercept and record assembler subprogram calls.
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

When recording the test cases, the folder should be defaulted to JCL folder and not the PROGRAM folder

Since we have a JCL folder for zUnit, when ever we do start recording, it should point to JCL folder in default, which will help developer avoid manual selection and its time consuimg as well.
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Test case prefix is actually not required and its creating some other issues

Test case perfix overridng other program test cases and its a very high potential issue
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the editor

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TestCase Editor of zUnit capability enhancement 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 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 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 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide support for PUT and GET statement

I am opening this RFE on behalf of the customer. They are requested that zUnit provide support for PUT and GET statement In essence, lift the limitation documented at this link https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQ2R2_14.2.0/com.ibm.e...
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

The function to import a test file as a stub is not available for local projects.

The function to import a test file (local or remote) as a stub is not available for local projects.
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support POINTERs in Copybooks

Z Unit UI needs to be able to support POINTERs + LENGTHS for both Batch and Online. Ie, it should make the area addressed by the pointers available to the UI, both in and outbound from the programs being tested.
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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