Micro Focus Unit Testing Framework (Known Issues)

The Micro Focus Unit Testing Framework has a number of restrictions on the syntax contained in a test case, and size limits of source data in data-driven tests.

Syntax

The following syntax is not currently supported within a test case:

Native OO COBOL code
User interface syntax (i.e. anything that requires user interaction throughout the running of the program)
PL/I syntax
Mainframe emulation applications containing EXEC DLI statements.

Data-driven tests

There are size limits on some of the elements of the .csv files used for data-driven tests:

Element	Size limit (characters)
Header length	62464
Data line length	62464 Note: Within the IDE, only the first 255 characters of each row are displayed when showing the progress of a test.
MFU-DD-VALUE size	255
Override MFU-DD-VALUE size	255-62464 inclusive
Environment variable	<=64512

You can circumvent some of these limits by storing long/complex field data in an external file, and then loading it into memory (using MFU_GET_FILE or MFUGETf) before the test is run.

Using the MFUPP Preprocessor

The following restrictions apply when running tests that utilize the MFUPP preprocessor:

When testing programs that contain EXEC statements (EXEC CICS and EXEC SQL), the statement cannot be split over multiple lines; for example:
```
EXEC
SQL
COMMIT
END-EXEC
```
SQL"IGNORE" does not support the expansion of SQL TYPES , such as:
- BINARY
- BLOB
- BLOB-FILE
- BLOB-LOCATOR
- CHAR
- CHAR-VARYING
- CLOB
- CLOB-FILE
- DATE
- DATE-RECORD
- DBCLOB
- DBCLOB-FILE
- DBCLOB-LOCATOR
- LONG-VARBINARY
- LONG-VARCHAR
- ROWID
- TIME
- TIME-RECORD
- TIMESTAMP
- TIMESTAMP-RECORD
- TIMESTAMP-OFFSET
- TIMESTAMP-OFFSET-RECORD
- VARBINARY
- XML
The preprocessor does not honor the SOURCE-ENCODING directive.

.NET 8 support

.NET 8 support on Windows and UNIX/Linux platforms is 64-bit only.