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Z Development and Test Environment

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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.
over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

ZD&T Parallel Sysplex in Containers

Azure container support for a sysplex configuration is being requested.
almost 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

ZDT Tools API interface : Provide API to request License Status

New API needed !When using the Query_License script( /opt/IBM/LDK/query_license), it returns informations regarding licensing (logins CPU, max logins CPU, currently active sessiosn with associatied IP adress,...) We need to get this functionnality...
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

allow zd&t to orderly shutdown z/os on Linux reboot

when Linux reboot/shutdown is issued the emulator recognizes the signal and forces the emulator to stop immediately. Their should be a directive in the parameters file to allow the emulator to continue and let it be shutdown by SystemD service fil...
almost 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

ZD&T v12.0.1 - Dynamic change within DevMap

Hot Plug additional volume (1 volume = 8GB —current it is preallocate)
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

zDT - Allow ADCD install to custom path

Allow the location of zOS volumes to be recognized in Tools installed in a custom path. Currently requires the path to be /home/ibmsys1/zDT/adcd. The entire path and specifically adcd directory should be able to user defined, not hard-code and req...
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

automount aws files on OS request

Implement an automatic mount function of aws tapes on awstape device driver. it should be possible to feed the virtual tape drive with scratch tapes without physical awsmount intervention.
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

DASD unit with no mounted file should be not bve seen as ready in OS

ZD&T allows to define DASD Units that have no associated file in the host filesystem behind. This is necessary since the device map does not allow for dynamic changes. All devices (UCBs) must be defined Right from the beginning otherwise they ...
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 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...
about 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration