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Z Development and Test Environment

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performance improvement for zd&t

Customers found zd&t very slow particularly running Java/WAS workloads. They asked that zd&t be changed to support more than 1 channel so that more than 1 concurrent i/o could be run if the Linux disk subsystem supported it.
about 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Delivered

ZD&T Tools Menu - Storage option listed first

The Tools "Settings" interface section, should list in order of the required definitions. The "Storage" option sis required to be defined before "Source Environment". "Storage" should be listed first in the "Settings" section.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Delivered

Include timestamp in all ZD&T logs

Include date and time in all logs.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Delivered

Improve ZD&T documentation about Firewall rules

ZD&T currently documentation about Firewall Rules available in Knowledge Center is not clear enough. It would be great if the direction ("from" and "to") is specified. For example: Port 22 from Enterprise Edition web server to Target environme...
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Delivered

zDT Tools - Add volumes & datasets to ADCD image from source z/OS system

A must is to be able to add datasets and volumes from the source system to zDT ADCD image. This would include after the initial ADCD image is built. This is required for every customer PoC to be able to add datasets and volumes to the ADCD image u...
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Delivered

Customisation IPTABLE

Impossiblité de paraméter sur l'interface web les ports qui sont définis dans l'iptable sur le serveur linux zdt_ config_tcpports 0:21 23:2021 2022>22 2023:3269 3271:9449 9452:65535 zdt_config_udpports 111 514 1023 1044:1049 2049
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Delivered

Improve ZD&T image capture performance

ZD&T Deploy exploits the ability to have parallel transfers - meaning deploy times are greatly reduced. ZDT Image capture is a serial process and takes significantly longer.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Delivered

Proactively identify and take action when a file is not present in the target system catalog

Client is deploying Wazi Sandbox. During the "Restoring z/OS dataset" step of the provisioning, if a dataset is not present in the target system catalog, the provision process stops and request a manual intervention. This idea is to provide a way ...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Delivered

Automatically skip the restore of duplicated dataset during image provisioning

Client is deploying Wazi Sandbox. During the "Restoring z/OS dataset" step of the provisioning, any dataset that is duplicated the provision process stops and request a manual intervention. This idea is to provide a way to automatically skip dupli...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Delivered

Disk sharing between two TARGET ZDT.

The goal is to share, outside the sysplex mechanism, disks between two targets.The goal is to make available files on a TARGET for other TARGET.A TARGET is in update and the others are in reading.File sharing between host linux is done through NFS.
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

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