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License check during zD&T Deploy

Enhance the Deploy capability so licensing is verified and reported if failures.
almost 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

zDT and z/OS maintenance

We would like to apply maintenance to our zDT environments without SMP administration work. We would like to apply PTFs in a more Agile way: easier, faster and without SMP overhead.
almost 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

zD&T Web app provide ability to add scratch 3390 volumes to an image.

When creating a zD&T image, the user should be able to include new/empty/scratch volumes as part of the image. This would eliminate need to manually create the volume files, and add them to the devmap, and edit the IOCD.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

zDT Tools mainframe program re-install

Provide a compatibility mode for the zD&T mainframe components supporting zDT Tools for new versions.
about 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Better validation of License server names

If you by accident type in a invalid host name for the License server in the zD&T EE Admini interface, you do not get an error, but at the instance deployment time you get a strange error that the target cannot communicate with the ZD&T EE...
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Switch between slot in SW00SR view don't work

In Toolkit 4.6, in debug, the SW00SR view is not updated when switching from one slot (TPFDF database) to another. Example in attach file : when we click on the second slot (25000B00), the details (and also Core Blocks, ...) are note updated with ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Is a defect

Add Vol=SER specification to ALCCKD Command

Currently, when running the ALCCKD command, a "default" VOL=SER is assigned to the newly allocated Volume. If the ALCCKD is executed for several Volumes, then ALL of those Volumes will have the SAME VOL=SER which will lead ot errors when zD&T ...
over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

zD&T Pre-allocated User Volumes

Include 2-3 3390-m9 pre-allocated volumes in base ADCD distribution.
over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

zDT Tools copy back to sourec LPAR

After application code and test data changes, enable Tools to copy back onto the source LPAR for further integration test and deployment.
over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

zDT ADCD pre-configured to work with ADFz client tools

Customer required and IBM TEC requirements to enable ADCD image pre-configured to work with ADFz tools (IDz, Debug, FM, FA and APA). This would inlcude compile, link, bind and debug jcl generated via IDz using sample PROCs reconfigured to work usi...
over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration