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This document lists known limitations for IBM Developer for z/OS when running on macOS.
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| Unsupported Features | Description |
| Bidirectional support | Bidirectional support is not available on macOS. |
| Configuring a z/OS connection during installation | During an IBM Installation Manager installation on macOS, the option to configure a z/OS connection is not available. |
| Debugging and Code Coverage | The standard mode for debugging and Code Coverage is not available on macOS. To debug programs on macOS, use the Debug Tool compatibility mode. |
| Hardware | IBM Developer for z/OS does not support Apple ARM-based SoC (aarch64). |
| Importing COBOL or PL/I source files | Importing COBOL or PL/I source files is not available on macOS. There are multiple areas of the tooling that use this technology and therefore are currently limited. Attempting to use this features will likely lead to Java exceptions. In the Enterprise Service tooling, these features include bottom up and meet in the middle scenarios for web services, JSON services, XML Transformation, SCA, and SFM projects. In addition, the Test Data Entry Editor also uses the same technology for importing so the zUnit feature is also limited. |
| J2C | Not available for selection during the installation. |
| Java code coverage | Java code coverage generation is not supported on macOS. However, you can import Java code coverage results that are generated on other supported platforms to generate and view code coverage reports on macOS. |
| Java profiling | Java profiling using JVMTI is not supported on macOS. |
| Preprocessing of files | Preprocessing of files is not supported on macOS. |
| Property Group | When a tab on a property group is initially opened, the page does not have focus and appears to be blank. Selecting a category from the list on the left of the page will bring the page into focus. |
| Other features | These features can be installed but are not supported on macOS:
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| Unsupported Features | Description |
| Bidirectional support | Bidirectional support is not available on macOS. |
| Configuring a z/OS connection during installation | During an IBM Installation Manager installation on macOS, the option to configure a z/OS connection is not available. |
| Debugging and Code Coverage | The standard mode for debugging and Code Coverage is not available on macOS. To debug programs on macOS, use the Debug Tool compatibility mode. |
| Hardware | IBM Developer for z/OS does not support Apple ARM-based SoC (aarch64). |
| Importing COBOL or PL/I source files | Importing COBOL or PL/I source files is not available on macOS. There are multiple areas of the tooling that use this technology and therefore are currently limited. Attempting to use this features will likely lead to Java exceptions. In the Enterprise Service tooling, these features include bottom up and meet in the middle scenarios for web services, JSON services, XML Transformation, SCA, and SFM projects. In addition, the Test Data Entry Editor also uses the same technology for importing so the zUnit feature is also limited. |
| J2C | Not available for selection during the installation. |
| Java code coverage | Java code coverage generation is not supported on macOS. However, you can import Java code coverage results that are generated on other supported platforms to generate and view code coverage reports on macOS. |
| Java profiling | Java profiling using JVMTI is not supported on macOS. |
| Preprocessing of files | Preprocessing of files is not supported on macOS. |
| Property Group | When a tab on a property group is initially opened, the page does not have focus and appears to be blank. Selecting a category from the list on the left of the page will bring the page into focus. |
| zUnit | Not available for selection during the installation. |
| Other features | These features can be installed but are not supported on macOS:
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Original Publication Date
20 December 2017
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