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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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Specify timeout on the individual WEB CONVERSE commands instead of RTIMOUT on the whole transaction

The RTIMOUT value specified for the transaction that starts the user application indicates the time that the application is prepared to wait to receive the incoming message. (RTIMOUT is specified on the transaction profile definition). However, in...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Statistics for usage of models in autoinstalls

Like other interesting resource parameters, keep a running tab of the usage of terminal models and program models, and report them in their own identifiers as SMF 110(2) records. This can help in housekeeping, and reduce the chances of trying to c...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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

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

Support for nested programs

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

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

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

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

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

Check primary DASD devices on all lpars with TEST CONFIG

Currently GDPS dasd TEST CONFIG checks, on the system on which the DASD Config is run (ie. master K), if the primary devices are accessible. With this idea we would like to extend this check, performed on the master K, to all the lpars of the rele...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 6 Future consideration

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