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Z Development and Test Environment

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Improve the image extraction experience for Z Virtual Dev and Test

Current process of creating custom images are very complex. Need lot of assistance from a system programmer and storage administrator to discover and identify the volumes needed during image creation . Today there is nothing in the ZVDT solution t...
7 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Delivered

Proactively identify and take action when a file is not present in the target system catalog

Client is deploying Wazi Sandbox. During the "Restoring z/OS dataset" step of the provisioning, if a dataset is not present in the target system catalog, the provision process stops and request a manual intervention. This idea is to provide a way ...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Delivered

Automatically skip the restore of duplicated dataset during image provisioning

Client is deploying Wazi Sandbox. During the "Restoring z/OS dataset" step of the provisioning, any dataset that is duplicated the provision process stops and request a manual intervention. This idea is to provide a way to automatically skip dupli...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Delivered

ZD&T Tools Menu - Storage option listed first

The Tools "Settings" interface section, should list in order of the required definitions. The "Storage" option sis required to be defined before "Source Environment". "Storage" should be listed first in the "Settings" section.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Delivered

Improve ZD&T documentation about Firewall rules

ZD&T currently documentation about Firewall Rules available in Knowledge Center is not clear enough. It would be great if the direction ("from" and "to") is specified. For example: Port 22 from Enterprise Edition web server to Target environme...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Delivered

Include timestamp in all ZD&T logs

Include date and time in all logs.
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Delivered

Improve ZD&T image capture performance

ZD&T Deploy exploits the ability to have parallel transfers - meaning deploy times are greatly reduced. ZDT Image capture is a serial process and takes significantly longer.
almost 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Delivered

Offer the possibility to change the start parameters when restarting a ZD&T instance

Allow the possibility to modify the start parameters of an image ZD&T.
almost 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Delivered

ZD&T product extended dataset type support required

We will work on a fix for '0C4' which supposed to address on the extraction issue.Regarding on the restoring issue(during deployment), unfortunately we don't support restoring extended sequential data set for now. If this is critical to you, I'd s...
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

Confirm zDT Running in a Docker Container is Supported

Include Docker containerisation in the list of supported run environments. We'd be more than happy to have this caveated (e.g. on RHEL, with the image based on RHEL, etc) to limit the testing requirements for the support team.
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Delivered

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