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Z Development and Test Environment

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ZVDT License Server running natively on Linux on zSystems

The customer would like to have all ZVDT components (i.e.: License Server) running natively on Linux on zSystems. It would helpful to have all components in the same platform to avoid delays, gaps and extra costs.
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

ZVDT Web Server running natively on Linux on zSystems

The customer would like to have all ZVDT components (i.e.: Web Server - aka Provisioning tools) running natively on Linux on zSystems. It would helpful to have all components in the same platform to avoid delays, gaps and extra costs.
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

ZVDT - Managed Deployment

The customers want to a ZVDT managed deployment from provisioning tools. Something similar to what ZD&T has in place today. The idea is to avoid typos and mistakes using as much automation as possible.
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

TS010125970 Allow customization of Wazi Image Builder

Hi, On all our z/OS Sysplexes , we have a shared read-only root filesystem, as recommended by IBM for better performance and reliability. Wazi image builder requires a Jar file wibMainframeSFTP.jar to be copied to /usr/lpp/IBM/wib - a location tha...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

improve UX of credential dialogs for linux/zos they are very similar

Make more visible / aparant to the user which credentials are you asking for, for example: replace the gray hint of User ID field from "Enter user ID" to "root" or "ibmuser" based on the type of credentials. Because there are two types of credenti...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Provide AWS message identifiers for oprmsg messages

The customer would like to see the message "1090 not running" that is returned when the instance is not running to be documented in the man files. A better solution would be to provide AWS message ids that could be looked up with the msginfo comma...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

IBM z with 5G network connectivity

1- Enabling the z/OS and z/VM system for Cloud satellite based on 5G networks and SD-WAN with Traffic Slicing for each z/OS and z/VM LPARs or Virtual machine, which is the required infrastructure for futuristic Enterprise Applications. 2- Also add...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Require the improvement of ZD&T Licensing errors/warning/messages when a ZD&T License Manager has been flagged as a clone

Currently, issues with ZD&T licensing are very difficult to diagnose for the ZD&T customer and even for IBM support. Especially when it comes to "cloned" License Manager servers. When a request file is generated (via request_license), I ...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Remove 32bit licinsing executables

The security department has marked the 32bit components of the licensing component on a zd&t target as a security risk. We need to be able to choose not to install these components. Files in /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_se...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future 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