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Z Development and Test Environment

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zD&T Web app provide ability to add scratch 3390 volumes to an image.

When creating a zD&T image, the user should be able to include new/empty/scratch volumes as part of the image. This would eliminate need to manually create the volume files, and add them to the devmap, and edit the IOCD.
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Better validation of License server names

If you by accident type in a invalid host name for the License server in the zD&T EE Admini interface, you do not get an error, but at the instance deployment time you get a strange error that the target cannot communicate with the ZD&T EE...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

MFA-Support for z/OS Extraction utilities

We are migrated to MFA on our Mainframe and cannot use z/OS Extraction utilities! So please enhance zD&T to support MFA for connection to the mainframe.
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Update existing ZD&T image with datasets from multiple sources (Z mainframe)

Sun Life is interested in improving the upgrade image process. They requested the capability to update an existing image from multiple sources i.e.: 2 different Development LPARs from Z mainframe.
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Licensing server must show fully qualified hostnames

I want to restrict access to only allow certain host names https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zdt/13.3.0?topic=edition-configuring-authorization but licensing server does not show FQDN. Because licensing server show only hostname there is a chance that s...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

ZDT Extraction Tool: Authorization token has expired. Login again.

We are attempting to extact zOS source components from the mainframe, our EC2 Instance (target) web manager is hosted in AWS VPC. We are able to successfully ssh and SFTP files from source to target from the same EC2 server through the terminal. H...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Is a defect

Service Management Unite Automation and Z-ChatOps included in ZDT.

"Service Management Unite Automation" and "Z-ChatOps" are included with the following products (free of charge): IBM Z Service Management Suite IBM Z Service Automation Suite IBM Z Monitoring Suite IBM Z System Automation As ADCD system includes "...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Provide new ADCD RSU (PTFs) monthly maintenance

ADCD provided with ZPDT (for partners) has RSU maintenance (i think a monthly maintenance). The installation of this maintenance is responsibility of the customer. The ADCD provided with ZDT is different to the ADCD provided with ZPDT, but i think...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Include IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2.1 to ADCD stack

I'm z/OS System Programmer and I use ZDT Personal Edition and ADCD to learn about installations/configurations and test new functions in z/OS. ZDT is mainly designed for developing, but i think it is a very useful tool for System Programmers too. ...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

WEB UI functions to show volumes and datasets being provisioned

Client is deploying Wazi Sandbox. During the "Restoring z/OS dataset" step of the provisioning, for any dataset that is duplicated, the provision process stops and request a manual intervention. This idea is a request to provide a function that sh...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration