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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)
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Pause/Resume zD&T

In order to manage zD&T licenses and avoid having to ipl (or dynamically configure an instance of a running z/OS under zD&T), we are requesting the following: The ability to “pause” or “Quiesce” a running z/OS within the emulator and free ...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

ZD&T V13+ - Organized/Systematic zOS Shutdown & IPL

ZDT Tools clean z/OS Shutdown & re-IPL
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Planned for future release

Need documentation on what to backup and restore on the ZD&T Web server

If the ZD&T Web server is on an image that needs to be rebuilt then what needs to be backed up and restored: database, repository storage, license server if applicable, ...
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

Parallel Sysplex version should include the tools

zD&T Parallel Sysplex Edition does not contain the web-based development tools that assist in the management of z/OS images, transfer of datasets, and assistance with DASDs copied to an emulated 3390. The request is to include these tools with...
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

ZDT - Deploy option to IPL or not

Disable auto-IPL when deploying ZDT with ZDT Tools.
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under consideration

ZDT - Add datasets to ADCD w/o having deployed ADCD using Tools

Requirement to use Tools for dataset copy from source system to ZDT ADCD w/o having initially deployed ADCD using Tools. In other words, no dependency on Tools required to deploy ADCD, then add data using Tools.
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

awsstop sync

Don't complete the awsstop command until all aws.... threads have terminated - a synchronous stop. Currently the awsstop command completes before all awsckd threads have completed. This means that the files updating the disk images are still open ...
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under consideration

Request empty volumes durng deploy

Introduce an ability to specify additional empty volumes as part of either specification of an image (preferred) or as part of the deploy.
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Include MQ as subsystem in zd&t capture tool

The tool now contains subsystem capture, currently only CICS & DB2 are defined MQ would be a great addition.
almost 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

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