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post SMPE instructions for ADCD products

Hi I would like to know post-SMPE instructions for all the ADCD products so I can do the maintenance of products I'm entitled to via shop z. Because I don't want to provision a new instance with a new level of ADCD and migrate my data. Regards Vitek
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

cohost manualy generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC

Hi we would like to reduce the number of licensing servers to reduce maintenance overhead and complexity of our environment. Currently, zdnt license server does not allow cohosting manually generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC. When we...
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Not under consideration

Provide a java.security file to support z crypto h/w

Provide a mechanism to enable crypto hardware providers (IBMJCECCA and IBMJCEHYBRID) on z/OS without requiring additional configuration of the java.security properties file.
over 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

document recomandation on linux lpar spec to host 10s, 50s, 100s of ZVDT instances

I'm looking for recomandations for how many LPARs, how much memory, how many IFLs, what linux kernel parameters needs to be adjusted to run dozen ZVDT instances 50+ ZVDT instances 100-500 ZVDT instances
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Planned for future release

z/OSMF opens unnecessary Java RMI-Ports on public IP

When starting z/OSMF, it openes the configured Socket for normal work. And it also openes an secondary Port with moving port-number (every restart a different port), which gives (on usage) a message which sounds like Java RemoteMethodInvocation.Ne...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Specify product specific message id instead of BPXM023I with JZOS API MvsConsole.wto

Z Digital Integration Hub is a Java based strategic hybrid cloud integration product on z/OS for realtime information flow between z/OS core systems and hybrid cloud application. We are currently implementing the support for STOP, DISPLAY and SHUT...
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ZD&T Fixed/Term License Renewals are not clearly visible in LKC, nor are the licenses available until the day after the current/existing licenses expire.

The problems: 1) The renewal Sales Order shows in LKC, but simply says “No licenses available for this Order” with no indication that this will ever change. 2) There is guaranteed ZD&T License outage which will vary depending on the customer l...
over 2 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 1 Future consideration

Update JAVA to honor default Keyring certificate

Update JAVA so it will honor the default Keyring certificate instead of picking the first personal certificate it finds in a Keyring. JAVA is being invoked by products like Liberty for z/OS server in a JVM and Java is using JSSE to get digital cer...
over 5 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future 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

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