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    Make it possible to insert certificates for 3270-server from web-based interface

    It is common to connect to specific services in a z/OS-instance by 3270 terminal. These connections are secured by self-signed certificates only. It is easy to create a certificate for such an instance, but hard to apply it to an instance. Simplif...
    about 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

    Make TLS-level to ADCD instances in Enterprise Edition of z Development & Test configurable via webbased interface

    For high security requirements, it would be simple to allow an instance to accept TLS-1.3 connections only. Other could be simply switched to TLS-1.2 via webbased interface.
    about 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

    Make TLS 1.2 default for all secure connections to zD&T instances derived from ADCD

    In today's devops computing enviroments, compliance enforces minimum TLS 1.2 level for secure connections to them. But currently, ADCD instances for z/OS show up in security scans (Nexus) with TLS 1.0.
    about 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

    Z/VM support of ZVDT

    Z/VM is used extensively across enterprises
    almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

    General zvdt support for Z/VM layer 3 vswitch

    Layer 3 vswitch includes all capabilities of Layer 2 plus routing capabilities. All Z/VM customers running ZVDT would benefit from this
    almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to launch ZVDT from CP4AIOPS (Infrastructure Automation) Portal

    ZVDT currently provides RESTful APIS that can be used to launch it. Having this capability in the IA portal would provide a user friendly self-serve interface for the developers who will be using the CP4AIOPS porta. An ansible playbook would be re...
    almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

    Support to run ZVDT on z/VM based Linux on Z Systems

    The customer wants to use ZVDT on Linux on Z guests, which run on z/VM. Please make this scenario officially supported.
    almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

    redbook on how to convert sysplex lpar to a stand alone lpar

    Customers find it very hard to more a sysplex configured lpar to a stand alone lpar that zd&t could use. IBM should provide a redbook or a methodology to do it, so customers do not have to figure it out for themselves.
    about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

    Invalidate LINKLST ADD for "ALIAS DSN" in the DSNAME parameter with an error message.

    justifications: LNKLST activation during IPL will fail with alias DSN due to the catalog address space is not yet available to resolve the base DSN. Currently, dynamic LNKLST activation after IPL is successful when/where the catalog address spa...
    about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 5 Not under consideration

    zD&T Webserver enhancement - Add a feature to capture a list of reply commands

    The IPL of our LPAR copy require a manual intervention (through the console) to issue reply commands in order to complete the IPL successfully. Can there be an option in the zD&T Webserver to configure each Image with the option to capture cus...
    over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

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