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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories zUnit
Created by Guest
Created on May 17, 2023

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zUnit need to 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 AIBTDLI call are a submodule called to check if the AIBTDLI call was OK or not.
If the AIBTDLI call was OK, then the submodule returns the address to the involved PCB to the main program as a parameter and the main program then do “SET ADDRESS OF” to set the address to the PCB area.

Example from the main program:

       ZXC-CALL-MCMMAIB SECTION.

           SET  EXCEPTION-OK-JA   IN MCMDERR     TO TRUE

           CALL 'MCMMAIB' USING MCMDERR
                                                          AIB
                                                          PCB-INFO

           IF IS-ERROR     IN MCMDERR
              GO TO ZY-FELRUTIN
           END-IF

           SET ADDRESS OF PCB       TO PCB-ADR IN AIB
           .

       SECTION-END. 


Since zUnit not support this we cannot start to use zUnit and we really want to be able to use zUnit in our new DevOps pipeline.

IBM have opened an APAR to document the limitation (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH54419), but we want it to be supported instead!

/BoRa

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     May 22, 2023
    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. Your request is currently inline with our product strategy and we have planned it for a future release of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.

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