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z/OS Provisioning Toolkit

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zOSPT - Option to override the Domain and Tenant ENV variable

This request is to enhance the zOSPT product to accept the ZOSMF_DOMAIN and ZOSMF_TENANT ENV variables as overrides in the zOSPT Image "zosptfile" file and as additional parameter options for the "zospt run" command that can be submitted on the co...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 2 Delivered

zOSPT - Remove hardcoding requirement for DFH_STC_ID

Currently, it is required to hard code DFH_STC_ID in the CICS properties file. Meaning that all CICS regions provisioned would use same STC ID. In our environment our standards are that the CICS region APPLID matches the STC ID. Therefore, the nam...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / Workflow 3 Delivered

zOSPT - Allow the use of dashes in Dataset names

When attempting to provision a CICS region it fails as one of our region files contains a dash(-) within the dataset name. This is a valid character to use within a dataset name, however zOSPT fails on it stating that it's invalid. These are valid...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / Workflow 2 Delivered

zospt could provide diffirent port pools for diffirent usage

CEB has a port range for different usage,eg, they use 100xx as port. 101xx as the CMCI port, so they are wondering if the cloud provisioning resource pool could be divided into low level groups that for different usages for one template.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 3 Delivered

zospt could provide the ability to provision a suite of enviroment including MQ+CICS+DB2

BOC have a suite of environment from front end to back end, and they have connections with each other, eg, CICS Connect to MQ and Connect to DB2, zospt have the link function for cics link to existing DB2 and MQ, however, some times they need a su...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Delivered

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