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Post provisioning script for individual images

Allow to run custom code after zdnt is provisioned.
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

RBAC for ZD&T instances

Add role based access to zdnt instances
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

add a warning in the case that jvollist finds the LOADPARM volume is empty

Provisioning of image with empty LOADPARM fails. Warn user ahead of provisioning
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Protect TWS Subresources for ETT, JV, RD and SR with authority group id

Implement the field authority group id for TWS objects ETT, RD, JV and SR and protect the access to the objects via new RACF subresources(the same way as applications with subresource AD.GROUP)
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

AUTHDEF TRACE ( SAF trace ) needs to be started/stop via command instead of restarting the controller task

Currently to trace security issues in Z workload scheduler it is necessary to alter the controller parms to have TRACE(8) in AUTHDEF, cycle the controller, collect the EQQMLOG, then set TRACE(0) again and cycle the controller again. This makes it ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

When health RESETZERO, stop flow of Transactions into Gateway. TS015557631

When transaction gateway about to shutdown; let the tasks in the gateway finish; then shutdown the gateway. RESETZERO not to allow just new connections to the gateway, but to allow no more transaction traffic. See Case: TS015557631
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Allow ZCDNV to set a configurable number of NVPs that would be displayed on Dump messages sent to prime cras console

As we increase the use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC), the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area is becoming increasingly important to our application developers to rapi...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add a warning message when the Network Services Database rejects socket connections due to Max connection value

In order to more rapidly troubleshoot and resolve production network and connection issues, updating the TCP/IP Network Services Database code to issue a warning message to the console when the NSD limit rejects an inbound or outbound connection c...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Need VM relocation among z/VM compute nodes

To balance the workload among the compute nodes
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

Endevor v18 function support in IDz 14.1.5

The new feature for IDz concerns the CARMA bridge interface to Endevor. Endevor release 18 allows for 256 character element names for USS support. The current CARMA interface only allows for 10 characters. The CARMA interface should support the ne...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Future consideration