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    FlashCopy support in emulated disks

    To support fast reset of testing scenarios, we would like to make use of FlashCopy backup and restore features from within z/OS. This would require the relevant support be provided in the disk emulation layer of the product.
    over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

    Dynamically add and remove emulated volumes on a running zD&T

    The alcckd command supports the volume versioning feature. This tracks changes to the volume which can then be committed or rolled back. The challenge is that this must be setup and then subsequently actioned when the volume is offline from the em...
    over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

    ZDT Extraction Tool: Authorization token has expired. Login again.

    We are attempting to extact zOS source components from the mainframe, our EC2 Instance (target) web manager is hosted in AWS VPC. We are able to successfully ssh and SFTP files from source to target from the same EC2 server through the terminal. H...
    over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

    Service Management Unite Automation and Z-ChatOps included in ZDT.

    "Service Management Unite Automation" and "Z-ChatOps" are included with the following products (free of charge): IBM Z Service Management Suite IBM Z Service Automation Suite IBM Z Monitoring Suite IBM Z System Automation As ADCD system includes "...
    over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

    Include IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2.1 to ADCD stack

    I'm z/OS System Programmer and I use ZDT Personal Edition and ADCD to learn about installations/configurations and test new functions in z/OS. ZDT is mainly designed for developing, but i think it is a very useful tool for System Programmers too. ...
    over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

    WEB UI functions to show volumes and datasets being provisioned

    Client is deploying Wazi Sandbox. During the "Restoring z/OS dataset" step of the provisioning, for any dataset that is duplicated, the provision process stops and request a manual intervention. This idea is a request to provide a function that sh...
    over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

    ZD&T use of other ssh port than 22

    ZD&T assumes the default ssh port (22) but the customer uses a different one.
    almost 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

    Upgrade supplied CL/SuperSession to v3.2

    ADCD comes with "5601-B28 IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS 2.1". This RFE requests that "5698-CL3 IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS 3.1" be supplied instead.
    almost 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

    automount aws files on OS request

    Implement an automatic mount function of aws tapes on awstape device driver. it should be possible to feed the virtual tape drive with scratch tapes without physical awsmount intervention.
    over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

    z/PDT volume mover back to z/OS

    There is a utility in z/PDT that allows you to easily copy volumes from z/OS to z/PDT but not the other way. As a result we need to manually compress files and ftp them.
    almost 8 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

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