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    Reduce volume size required during image creation

    When TAz's On Demand discovery process is identifying all the volumes required for the image creation it will capture all space on each volume where a required data set is located. In some cases, there may be only 1 smaller dataset on a large volu...
    about 6 hours ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

    Optimize SYSRES Volume Build Capacity

    Currently, the ODE process for building SYSRES volumes requires a full volume snapshot of the source system. For example, in JPMC, the SS60 build scenario results in a storage requirement of 17.4 TB on both the Storage Server and the target VM. Th...
    about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

    add SLES support for zD&T

    Currently all of zD&T is only officially supported w/RHEL or Ubuntu - missing SLES. Clients who have standardized their IT on SLES, esp. in regulated industries, cannot run zD&T in a supported manner. It would be good to get SLES support f...
    over 2 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 1 Not under consideration

    support other Linux distribution for the tool server

    Actually, when you want to install ODTz, the tool server needs to be an Ubuntu distribution.But, in our company, the policy is to install only RHEL. So, can you add other type of distribution in your supported base? RHEL, SUSE, ...
    12 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    ASM to Cobol migration tool

    Can you bring a tool like CUAz to help your customers to migrate their old Assembler programs to Cobol ?
    7 months ago in COBOL Upgrade Advisor for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Speed up process for provisioning of subsequent zOS images after have provisioned first one

    When you use zODT in TAZ to provision the first zOS Image, you create for example the supplied stock zOS image, which is stored on a designated storage server. Then you provision the first one to for example a target Linux LPAR on z, this takes so...
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Not under consideration

    override IPL string via API

    I want to be able to override IPL string in start API
    8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    allow to specify non-contiguous pool of IPs and ports

    We have a subnet that has certain IP addresses already assigned. So we cannot define the whole subnet in ODTZ when defining a target environment. I need to define a non-contiguous pool of IPs and ports.
    10 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    Sysplex support

    KB is using TSQ, NCS(Name Count Server) in CICS COBOL applicaion in sysplex environment and so, to test COBOL program using ODT, Syspolex support is essential to use TSQ, NCS.
    11 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    Wazi Image Builder needs to support service ID's when authenticating to IBM Cloud

    Wazi Image Builder needs to support service ID's when authenticating to IBM Cloud
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Not under consideration

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