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Z Development and Test Environment

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Z/VM support of ZVDT

Z/VM is used extensively across enterprises
about 11 hours ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Reduce time to provision ZVDT image

exploit copyonwrite filesystem for extremely fast provisioning of image. Enhance devlopers productivity
3 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Improve time for deploying image to target environment for ZVDT

Need to expedite how the z/os volumes are being copied to the Linux directories. This will reduce wait time for developers looking to exploit this environment
3 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

MacVTap persistence needed for ZVDT

MacVTAP is manually defined for each instance and are not persistent. All ZVDT users would benefit from this.
3 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

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
4 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

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...
7 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Ability to associate roles in ZVDT with LDAP

This technology will be used by a large number of developers who currently have different roles and responsibilities in our organization. By leveraging LDAP roles to assign/deny access to ZVDT custom built images would make it easier to manage the...
7 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Ability to start and stop the z/OS instance from the ZVDT webui

Multiple developers will need to launch these images from a ui and this would be a great convenience to provide this feature
7 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 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...
7 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Remove 32 bit files from zD&T Linux targets

These files are part of the distribution/installation on the ZD&T targets: /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/libMD5CHAP.so /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/PwdGenUtility /opt/safenet_sentinel/common...
about 1 month ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Under review