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    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

    PTF Ordering Authorisation for z D&T products

    We have multiple business partners who does not own the real z H/W, but own z D&T. They need to develop multiple versions or releases of their product based on various z/OS system components. But the PTF level of z D&T library can't be con...
    about 8 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

    Query zD&T License Count

    A REST api to return the number of licenses in use and the total number of licenses. This would be applicable to all types of licenses (ex: Enterprise and Parallel Sysplex)
    about 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

    Pause/Resume zD&T

    In order to manage zD&T licenses and avoid having to ipl (or dynamically configure an instance of a running z/OS under zD&T), we are requesting the following: The ability to “pause” or “Quiesce” a running z/OS within the emulator and free ...
    about 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

    Snapshot a zD&T Instance

    Create a snapshot of a paused/quiesced system that would include the state of the memory, disk, communication, cpu, etc and have the ability to save it and restart the instance on the same machine or a different machine (or VM)
    about 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

    zDT sync with native z/OS

    As zDT is improving and increasing its capabilities and functionalities we would like to have a tool to synchronize changes made in zDT (development environments) into our master/native z/OS development environment ("sync back"). As last compilati...
    about 8 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 6 Not under consideration

    ZD&T should allow to keep the extracted files on local or NAS drive

    ZD&T IDE tool set provide option to copy files in FTP storage but In our case we just copy the files in to different drive on the same server. If you could include the capabilities to copy to different local drive /NAS drive that would help us.
    about 8 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

    ZD&T V13+ - Organized/Systematic zOS Shutdown & IPL

    ZDT Tools clean z/OS Shutdown & re-IPL
    over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

    Need documentation on what to backup and restore on the ZD&T Web server

    If the ZD&T Web server is on an image that needs to be rebuilt then what needs to be backed up and restored: database, repository storage, license server if applicable, ...
    almost 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

    Notify user when large files are corrupted by RSE

    On occasion, RSE may corrupt or partially write out large files. Could RSE be enhanced such that, after a file transfer is complete, it performs a checksum on both sides, compares the result, and if corruption is detected, notify the user.
    over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

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