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Test Accelerator for Z

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make userdefined extensions for unit testing 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 ...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for SYSIN and ACCEPT during recording and replay

If a COBOL program performs an ACCEPT on SYSIN then its replay fails with an abend U4038. It works if a SYSIN DD is added during replay. In a pipeline build, it will be better if the Dynamic Test Runner could record and replay SYSIN DD like any o...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Currently Unit testing with IDZ 14.2.2 does not support this case: the list of files are opened in other programs..

We have tested zUnit on simple standalone batch loads however we are now trying to create test cases for individual programs (csects) with a load module. We are getting file open errors in the case where the main program has the open for the file,...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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