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PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...
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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

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

Support "EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" in Unit testing

"EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" is a common syntax using in CICS, without the support we have a large portion of application team cannot adopt ZUnit.
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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

Search in the Test Case Editor

We are about to use zUnit for our existing payroll sources. But our sources have a large, automatic generated Linkage section with a lot of variables.We have the need to identify single variables to check their content (after recording) or to set ...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Using CICS policies to replace RTA functionality (Monitoring TDQ Count)

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not currently check TDQ Count, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do check for similar ...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Needs more information

Using CICS Policies to check if terminal connections have been acquired

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not check for Terminal Connection Acquired to CICS and so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Polici...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Needs more information

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