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Z Development and Test Environment

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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...
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Remove requirement for compile before moving modules from zD&T to production

Currently the zD&T license agreement specifies that a final compile (build) must be done on the actual z System prior to putting a module in to the Production environment. We want the ability to move load modules from our dev/test environments...
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

zDT sync with native z/OS

As zDT is improving and increasing its capabilities and functionalities we would like to have a tool to synchronize changes made in zDT (development environments) into our master/native z/OS development environment ("sync back"). As last compilati...
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 6 Not under consideration

ZD&T should allow to keep the extracted files on local or NAS drive

ZD&T IDE tool set provide option to copy files in FTP storage but In our case we just copy the files in to different drive on the same server. If you could include the capabilities to copy to different local drive /NAS drive that would help us.
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

zD&T utility to copy data from zD&T file to real z/OS volume

zD&T had a handy facility hckd2ckd to migrate data from real z/os volume to zPDT linux file. Our clients had a requirement to copy data from zPDT linux file to real z/os volume.
almost 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration