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Z Development and Test Environment

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enhance discovery using taddm z/os dla

the zd&t tools should provide generalized capability to move/copy any subsystem from z/os to zd&t. This would be much easier if it used taddm z/os dla to do the discovery. In this way cics, ims, mq, broker etc etc could all be candidates f...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

zPDT Licence Manager Installation

We are using zDNT environment for the testing & training purposes. We have token server, License Manager(LM) & zDNT instances & all are on AWS cloud VM. We have faced issue with LM connectivity. As per the IBM guidelines we have instal...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under consideration

allow incoming connections from uss back to zOS

Uss outgoing connection back to zos fails when using host IP. See the example below, where 10.210.139.54 is IP address of VM that runs zdt. IBMUSER:/u/ibmuser: >curl -k https://10.210.139.54:10443/zosmf/ -v * Trying 10.210.139.54:10443... * TCP...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Licensing server must show fully qualified hostnames

I want to restrict access to only allow certain host names https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zdt/13.3.0?topic=edition-configuring-authorization but licensing server does not show FQDN. Because licensing server show only hostname there is a chance that s...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Manage 3270 terminals into Z

Integrate 3270 terminal over the web browser in IBM ee so I can access TSO and MASTER console
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Post provisioning script for individual images

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

Support Group configuration for LDAP

We have groups defined in corporate LDAP. The IBM provisioning tool should allow the administrator to specify the LDAP group which in turn automatically adds all users belonging to that group as IBM EE users. Moreover, I would also like to assign ...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

RBAC for ZD&T instances

Add role based access to zdnt instances
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

allow for zd&t docker image to be loaded from a repository

The customer would like to load the zd&t docker image from a repository of their choosing.
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

ZDT Webtools server Export/Import Images

We request a new enhancement :Ability to export an image localized on a Webtool Server (web1) to another WebTool Server( WEB2).This request is motivated by : - The need to secure our images on multiple Server.- Several problem encounters during mi...
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration