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Z Development and Test Environment

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add a simulation mode during image deployment

add a simulation mode during the image deployment in order to have the list of deployed volumes
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Webtool - add the possibility for another user to restart zDT

Several users, with different accounts, are managing the zDT instances. We need a new functionnality in the WebTool that detect if the userid is not the one who started the process, check if he can be root, and upgrade his priviledges when restart...
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Restructure the Panel "Resume deployment Information"

Reorder/Resize the window sent when requesting the choice "Resume Deployment" for an image which did not start previously.
almost 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Pause/Resume zD&T

In order to manage zD&T licenses and avoid having to ipl (or dynamically configure an instance of a running z/OS under zD&T), we are requesting the following: The ability to “pause” or “Quiesce” a running z/OS within the emulator and free ...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Snapshot a zD&T Instance

Create a snapshot of a paused/quiesced system that would include the state of the memory, disk, communication, cpu, etc and have the ability to save it and restart the instance on the same machine or a different machine (or VM)
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

support and document 2 nic solution to deploying zd&t

zd&t should support and document deploying zd&t with 2 NICs which is easier and better from an operational point of view.
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Allow changing the number of lines when loading with pdsUtil

When reloading a PDS member on a ZDT disk the source and target must have the same number of rows This is blocking when you have to customize a PDS member by increasing the number of rows you can not reload this member.
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

support linux alias nics

the zd&t tools do not allow a Linux alias nic to be used as a destination address when defining details in the web guy. The tool auto-discovers the nic name such as enp0s31f6 but doesn't auto-discover the one I have to use (alias nic): enp0s31...
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Obtain a utility like pdsUtil for de sequential DATASET

ZDT comes with a pdsUtil utility that allows PDS modification out of the run of the ZDT instance.That is, it allows the modification of PDS directly on the image file of a disk.We have the same need on a sequential file.
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under consideration

License check during zD&T Deploy

Enhance the Deploy capability so licensing is verified and reported if failures.
about 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

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