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Z Development and Test Environment

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Require the improvement of ZD&T Licensing errors/warning/messages when a ZD&T License Manager has been flagged as a clone

Currently, issues with ZD&T licensing are very difficult to diagnose for the ZD&T customer and even for IBM support. Especially when it comes to "cloned" License Manager servers. When a request file is generated (via request_license), I ...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Add retry logic for connection failures

I miss connection retry when the network is flaky.1) when entering credentials for VM or zOS you validate credentials by connecting host. In case you get connection errors could you retry eg 3 times with 1sec delay before you raise an error. (in c...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Provide hooks for Pre-provisioning to integrate Quota restrictions

Provide hooks for Pre-provisioning so we can integrate with our license Quota restrictions mechanism.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

allow incoming connections from uss back to zOS

Uss outgoing connection back to zos fails when using host IP. See the example below, where 10.210.139.54 is IP address of VM that runs zdt. IBMUSER:/u/ibmuser: >curl -k https://10.210.139.54:10443/zosmf/ -v * Trying 10.210.139.54:10443... * TCP...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Manage 3270 terminals into Z

Integrate 3270 terminal over the web browser in IBM ee so I can access TSO and MASTER console
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Post provisioning script for individual images

Allow to run custom code after zdnt is provisioned.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

Support Group configuration for LDAP

We have groups defined in corporate LDAP. The IBM provisioning tool should allow the administrator to specify the LDAP group which in turn automatically adds all users belonging to that group as IBM EE users. Moreover, I would also like to assign ...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

RBAC for ZD&T instances

Add role based access to zdnt instances
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

add a warning in the case that jvollist finds the LOADPARM volume is empty

Provisioning of image with empty LOADPARM fails. Warn user ahead of provisioning
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

improve UX of credential dialogs for linux/zos they are very similar

Make more visible / aparant to the user which credentials are you asking for, for example: replace the gray hint of User ID field from "Enter user ID" to "root" or "ibmuser" based on the type of credentials. Because there are two types of credenti...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

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