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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...
about 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, ...
10 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

override IPL string via API

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

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...
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Not under consideration

DataGrid Column Resize

according to this Request in the EGL Forum:https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14584129&#14584129
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under 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.
8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

Have EGL support SSO using Kerberos

We'd like to use EGL in a Single Sign On environment as follows:- User logs on to Windows (Active Directory)- User opens our EGL application in a browser (Firefox)- EGL application calls EGL program call service- EGL proxy (running on Linux/WAS) r...
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under 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.
9 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

Option to generate REST Open API Service JSON file without REST RPC lines

We want to create a OPEN API REST Service project without REST RPC. At this moment when a JSON file is created there are also REST RPC lines in it.As a result of that Postman uses this RST RPC Endpoint.
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Can RBD please be compatible with Mac OS Ventura?

This would be very useful as at the moment RBD doesn't support any later release than Mac OS 11, which is 2 mainline versions older than the current Ventura 13.3.1 Therefore as it stands, any IBMer, or any client using a modern Mac would not be ab...