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Z Development and Test Environment

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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

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

ZD&T V13+ - Organized/Systematic zOS Shutdown

The ZDT Tools Deploy panel provides an option to "Stop emulated zOS", this does a hard stop of the emulator, not proving a graceful systematic shutdown of zOS and jes purge. If this option is selected, Tools must shutdown zOS in a organized manner.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

ZD&T Fixed/Term License Renewals are not clearly visible in LKC, nor are the licenses available until the day after the current/existing licenses expire.

The problems: 1) The renewal Sales Order shows in LKC, but simply says “No licenses available for this Order” with no indication that this will ever change. 2) There is guaranteed ZD&T License outage which will vary depending on the customer l...
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Offer the creation of the user to manage the zVDT instance when the instance is deployed. (ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc)

When a new zPDT instance is deployed by using zVDT GUI, it requires an user created in the host system in advance to manage this new instance (usually ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc). We suggest to create the user as part of deploy process instead of expec...
10 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Planned for future release

Create Volumes that can grow Dynamically in zD&T

Currently, allocating a Volume in the zD&T implementation means creating a FULL SIZE Volume at initial allocation. This can create pressure on the User to allocate "up front" a LOT of space even though this space will not be needed right away....
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under 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.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

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