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Early Development Testing for z/OS

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Support for PL/I

Unit Testing currently has support for Cobol, but not for PL/I at the moment yet there is a huge number of clients using PL/I
6 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Test Data Generation support for COBOL statements in CICS application

Without support for COBOL statment(perform, inspect), KB can't use Test Data Generation function. Especially, the limit of "INSPECT, PERFORM" status should be removed or resolved.
25 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Needs more information

DBCS character set(1364) support

All EBCDIC data is interpreted as Codepage-1047 (English) and then converted back to UTF-8, which is sometimes inaccurate. if 1364 DBCS character set is supported, then this problem can be solved.
25 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Needs more information

Support recording from both batch and IMS TM

When recording testdata for a submodule/program that could be included in both a batch and IMS TM program you are forced to choose one or the other since all recordings after is made with the same method. And you want to keep all tests for a modul...
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Should be able to record IMS TM without closing recording window

When recording an IMS TM the window controlling the recording needs på be closed in order to use IMS Explorer test case project (or 3270 emulator) in IDz to start the transaction(s) to be recorded. It's possible to close it and then stop the recor...
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support pointer item and pointer area as parameters of a sub program call

We cannot use zUnit for our BMP modules! We use IMS as our transaction manager, so the majority of our batch modules are BMP’s.Almost 100% of our modules use AIBTDLI.Almost all of our modules use the use the same (company) standard.After the AIBTD...
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to create director when creating unit test

When creating a new unit test you usally want it in another directory in the repo than the source (i.e. /test/<program> instead of /src/cobol) It would be an enhancment if you are not forced to create the <program> directory first but ...
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Test case editor unreadable with Dark theme

The test case editor is unreadable when switching to dark theme in IDz which is used by many developer Black text on dark grey background means you have to select the text to read it
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

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...
5 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Program Type in results should be accurate

If you specify DB2 or IMS and run the testcase, the zUnit results editor always shows BTCH, meaning the options DB2 or IMS which you chose in the generation phase are not reflected in the results
5 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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