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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 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Support for facelets

Facelets are the official view technology for JSF 2.0. Facelets are already supported in the "sibling product" Rational Application Developer 8, but the newest JSF standard supported in Rational Business Developer is JSF 1.2.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Stop doing pointless updates to DFHRSTAT in cpsm non-target cics regions

CPSM code should check to see if a cics region is defined as a wlm target region. If it is NOT a wlm Target region, cpsm should override (to 0) any coded, or default, UPDATE RS parm value to avoid updating DFHRSTAT with info that will never be uti...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add "replying to operator console messages" to IDz

A console message such as 4200000 DEMOMVS 12.12.36 STC10875 *068 DFS996I *IMS READY* IMSC, response would require a 3270 interface to SDSF.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

LDAP active directory msft support on HOD

Actor : 600 users are potentially interested to ldap control for access to our I--series and mainframe environment Description: We are using Microsoft LDAP Autenthication feature as a standard for our environment and we need to introduce it also f...
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 7 Not under consideration

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 6 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 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Rarional Programming Patterns: having subscripts automatically located in the subscript data group.

When using RPP (V9.5.1) I noticed that the subscripts generated thru the snippets are not generated in binary format (COMP, COMP-4/5 or BINARY usage) - preferred format for this kind of data -. RPP seems to expect the user to add a group data item...
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 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 6 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 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

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