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Z Development and Test Environment

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Ability to launch ZVDT from CP4AIOPS (Infrastructure Automation) Portal

ZVDT currently provides RESTful APIS that can be used to launch it. Having this capability in the IA portal would provide a user friendly self-serve interface for the developers who will be using the CP4AIOPS porta. An ansible playbook would be re...
8 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Ability to associate roles in ZVDT with LDAP

This technology will be used by a large number of developers who currently have different roles and responsibilities in our organization. By leveraging LDAP roles to assign/deny access to ZVDT custom built images would make it easier to manage the...
8 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Ability to start and stop the z/OS instance from the ZVDT webui

Multiple developers will need to launch these images from a ui and this would be a great convenience to provide this feature
8 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Include 3270port in the devmap file

Since ZVDT allows for multiple instances running on the same Linux on Z LPAR, the default 3270port entry was removed, as multiple instances would be unable to share the same port.However, having the port is critical when debugging IPL related issu...
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Remove 32 bit files from zD&T Linux targets

These files are part of the distribution/installation on the ZD&T targets: /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/libMD5CHAP.so /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/PwdGenUtility /opt/safenet_sentinel/common...
8 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Manage 3270 terminals into Z

Integrate 3270 terminal over the web browser in IBM ee so I can access TSO and MASTER console
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

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 ...
almost 3 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.
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