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Enhance Long Duration Alert Message Information for Usability

The Long Duration alert message should be enhanced to provide additional information that will assist in quicker assessment and analysis. Additional information requested to add to the message:* Run Cycle * Job start time* Jobs estimated duration*...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

ZD&T V13+ - Organized/Systematic zOS Shutdown

The ZDT Tools Deploy panel provides an option to "Stop emulated zOS", this does a hard stop of the emulator, not proving a graceful systematic shutdown of zOS and jes purge. If this option is selected, Tools must shutdown zOS in a organized manner.
almost 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

ADDI - One Single Repository

Currently the product does not support having a single repository for a user group based on a secondary authid.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Command for Start and Stop API/Service support in zCEE

We need support for STOPing or STARTing an API/Service using MODIFY COMMANDS similar to enable/disable the ports.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

BAQ-RESPONSE-LEN should fit the real length of the returned data.

BAQ-RESPONSE-LEN should fit the real length of the returned data.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

PDB Comparison

Today there is no possibilty to compare the current PDB/SOCNTL against a new generated SONCTL to see the differences. With other words the automation adminstrator activates every change for a PDB / SOCNTL in blind flight without being able to chec...
about 7 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
10 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 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.
10 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow the E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" to use a custom HLQ for it's temp datasets

The E3270UI "System Programmers Toolkit" uses the users userid as HLQ for any temp datasets it creates. We have LPARs where our userid is restricted to creating only very small datasets, this causes allocation errors in the "System Programmers Too...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

General zvdt support for Z/VM layer 3 vswitch

Layer 3 vswitch includes all capabilities of Layer 2 plus routing capabilities. All Z/VM customers running ZVDT would benefit from this
10 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

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