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    Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

    SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

    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

    Fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from SMU

    GDPS is able to control a fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from the GDPS control panel. We would like to the have the same functionality for non GDPS systems. The Operator should have the possibility to initiate and control the following act...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

    SMU and GDPS - Hardware Integration

    When integrating HW views into SMU it would be good to have GDPS facilities integrated, also.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

    SMU to operate with APIML

    Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future 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

    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

    Use of wildcards in the search option SMU

    The use of wildcards in the search option of the SA widgets in SMU. Now you can only filter by default on the beginning of the name or you have to set all kinds of filters (e.g.: starts with and ends with).
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

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