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    Gateways (DISPGW) to show correct status when inbound sessions are not connected

    We recently created a new LPAR. We defined a gateway definition to the LPAR hosting the TWS controller, but missed defining a gateway definition the other way. DISPGW on the new LPAR showed the status of the gateway to the TWS system as active. Th...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Provide an appliance form factor for zVDT

    Shared Services Canada (Government of Canada) is planning to use ZVDT for thousands of developers. This would allow for easier management of the ZVDT images with their hybrid cloud solutions
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    Allow to use RACF as keystore database for E2E Automation

    The E2E Automation allows to have secured SSL-communication beetween the E2E-systems. Therefore you have to define some SSL-Keys. The configuration dialog within the feature allows to specify the name of the keystore inside the JAVA-Environment. T...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Improve time for deploying image to target environment for ZVDT

    Need to expedite how the z/os volumes are being copied to the Linux directories. This will reduce wait time for developers looking to exploit this environment
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    MacVTap persistence needed for ZVDT

    MacVTAP is manually defined for each instance and are not persistent. All ZVDT users would benefit from this.
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    Ability to associate roles in ZVDT with LDAP

    This technology will be used by a large number of developers who currently have different roles and responsibilities in our organization. By leveraging LDAP roles to assign/deny access to ZVDT custom built images would make it easier to manage the...
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    Ability to start and stop the z/OS instance from the ZVDT webui

    Multiple developers will need to launch these images from a ui and this would be a great convenience to provide this feature
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    Remove 32 bit files from zD&T Linux targets

    These files are part of the distribution/installation on the ZD&T targets: /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/libMD5CHAP.so /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/PwdGenUtility /opt/safenet_sentinel/common...
    over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

    SA ISPF Dialogue Build option to support directly duilding to GDG(+1)

    Hi SA Dev, In the SA ISPF dialogue 2 BUILD OPTION in the ‘Output Data Set' field:please provide support to allow user to specify the DSN(+1) for an existing GDG when building to an ACF. Customers can allocate a new DSN(+1) to an existing GDG using...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

    Offer the creation of the user to manage the zVDT instance when the instance is deployed. (ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc)

    When a new zPDT instance is deployed by using zVDT GUI, it requires an user created in the host system in advance to manage this new instance (usually ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc). We suggest to create the user as part of deploy process instead of expec...
    almost 2 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

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