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Z Development and Test Environment

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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

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 ...
about 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.
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 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.
about 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...
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

FlashCopy support in emulated disks

To support fast reset of testing scenarios, we would like to make use of FlashCopy backup and restore features from within z/OS. This would require the relevant support be provided in the disk emulation layer of the product.
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Dynamically add and remove emulated volumes on a running zD&T

The alcckd command supports the volume versioning feature. This tracks changes to the volume which can then be committed or rolled back. The challenge is that this must be setup and then subsequently actioned when the volume is offline from the em...
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

automount aws files on OS request

Implement an automatic mount function of aws tapes on awstape device driver. it should be possible to feed the virtual tape drive with scratch tapes without physical awsmount intervention.
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

z/PDT volume mover back to z/OS

There is a utility in z/PDT that allows you to easily copy volumes from z/OS to z/PDT but not the other way. As a result we need to manually compress files and ftp them.
almost 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

PTF Ordering Authorisation for z D&T products

We have multiple business partners who does not own the real z H/W, but own z D&T. They need to develop multiple versions or releases of their product based on various z/OS system components. But the PTF level of z D&T library can't be con...
almost 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

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