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TACM should use zIIP engines during ie EXPLORE function

Heavy EXPLORE(reporting functions) running through all catalogs have a high GP cost. In examples we face turnaround times of 100 minutes with a GP cost of 12 minutes. Here an explore sample that gives above numbers: EXPLORE - DSN-LISTFILE(OUT) - C...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 3 Future consideration

IMS Asynchronous Lock Duplexing

Like DB2 "asynchronous CF duplexing", do you have any plan to implement similar functionality on IMS for IMS locking and VSAM RLS locking. Synchronized duplexing is too expensive in terms of CPU consumption.
5 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

dinfo command should not require a volume parameter as all our datasets are catalogued

The dinfo command should not require a volume parameter as all our datasets are catalogued. Should be able to issue this command: dinfo -u @02858.t.cntl …instead of this one: dls -l @02858.t.cntl | awk '{print $1, $NF}' | xargs dinfo -u to list: @...
about 2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Not using 'USING' but working with adresses

We found out, that we only have the variables of the linkage section, that were transferred with PROCEDURE DIVISION USING … In the Test Case Editor. The functionality in our programs is different. There is no USING, we use the so called ‘Versorger...
15 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

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).
15 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support for nested programs

We have some Cobol programs in which nested programs are used. Unfortunately, this is not currently supported by zUnit.
15 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
15 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

Unit testing to be available on VS Code

Currently zUnit is only available on IDz. Test cases can be executed out of IDz but, test cases and recordings can only be created within IDz. This causes a lock-in in IDz, so this prevents using other IDEs like VSC or CodeReady Workspaces. We nee...
15 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support assertions 'lower than', 'greater than', 'different than', 'not null'

Currently zUnit only permits assertions ‘equal to’ in the testcases executions. We need zUnit to permit assertions of other types: ‘lower than’, ‘lower or equal than’, ‘greater than’, ‘greater or equal than’, 'different than' and 'not null'.This c...
15 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

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

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