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    Only able to record testcases from a single loadmodule

    We are having the same program linked into multiple loadmodules. We would like to record testcases from all loadmodules, but after the first recording, the record dialogue has the Program name locked. And according to instrcuctions, the "Program n...
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Detail information with intuitive interface in EIT's command flow

    Current output has too simple and not much value for developer. Currently, only the first-level subroutine of the program is shown, but it would be nice to show the detailed modules for each subroutine in more detail, and the call structure and pa...
    7 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Needs more information

    Support for TYPES LOB (BLOB, CLOB...)

    Support of fields with SQL types LOB (BLOB, CLOB...) .Example: 10 'A'-TXT-NACHM-GRND USAGE SQL TYPE IS XML AS CLOB(10000) OCCURS 1.
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Add an example for COPY directive with replacing text in area A

    Hi, The position of the right parameter of a replacement, in area A or area B, influences the final text result (while the position of the right parameter of a replacement has no impact). This should be explained with an example, to change the nam...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Error in example 7 of the COPY directive documentation

    Hi, Example 7 provided for the documentation of the COPY directive is wrong: the replacement of the trailing "GROSS-PAY" by "NET-PAY" is taken into account, and is also applied to example 8.See listing hardcopy in attachement. Thanks.
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Is a defect

    Missing functions in COBOL

    To determine the size of an array, most programmers use a constant and check the index against the constant. As an alternative compiler option SSRANGE can be used, which is not very performant.It might be a good choice to have functions which retu...
    about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

    During the report playback include the load library where the program was executed in the report

    We need information in the playback results about the loadlib where the program was executed
    7 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Under review

    Include an option during the playback to display the input/output data

    Some developers would like to save the result as a document that the test didn't fail and what kind of input and output data was in use.
    7 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Under review

    Enhance INITCHECK so it catches the use of uninitialized indexes in SEARCH statements

    The frequent programming error of forgetting to set an index before a SEARCH is not being detected by INITCHECK. In the following example program, the index U150-ACT-IND-IDX is erroneously not set before the SEARCH U150-TRANX-ACT-IND-DATA line. Wi...
    almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

    Enterprise COBOL for z/OS - Be able to associate an UDF prototype with a COBOL program declaring a RETURNING clause

    Hi, A User Defined Function prototype is generally intended to be associated with a COBOL User Defined Function. However, it is also possible to associate it with a routine described in an other programming language, particularly a C routine. ...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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