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    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

    IBM JVM needs to support default credentials cache file created by native kinit program

    IBM JVM needs to support default credentials cache file created by native kinit (/usr/bin/kinit) program, like Oracle JVM does today. Our client OCC (big US financial company) requires to secure access to HDFS with Kerberos. We anticipate that mor...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 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

    Exploit z/OS specific features to minimise impact of Java security changes to JCE RACF keystores

    Why:Following implementation of OSB 8181692, the KeyProtector.java function increased the number of times that keystore data is encrypted from from 20 to 200,000 times. This had the effect of significantly increasing the cost when retrieving the k...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Provide library javax.smartcardio

    requires support for javax.smartcardio in IBM JDK 8.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 5 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

    Using IBM Record Generator off Z/OS system with UTF-8 encoding support

    Record Generator only supports EBCDIC encoding. I need it to support UTF-8 off z/OS platform.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Future consideration

    Option to allow ARM registration at start of the JVM using JZOS Batch Launcher

    The JZOS Batch Launcher has currently no automatic restart capability when JVM crashes, such a feature that could be very helpful for critical online application or web server like Tomcat. This could be implemented by adding an option that automat...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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