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Z Development and Test Environment

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Artifactory Support

The support for z/D&T z/OS images and storage is basically (s)FTP. Support for Artifactory as an image repository would greatly enhance its flexibility.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Address Stop / Storage alteration

An API to hook into emulated cpu so I could halt it when a particular s390 instruction is executed or an address hit and an API to inspect and alter emulated memory. All these APIs are intended for code coverage and debugging
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

Create trace of z hardware instructions

Create a trace file of execution history of the z hardware instructions similar to the CP TRACE facility in zVM. This should capture the virtual address+opcode to a file for processing later.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Manipulate virt 3390 based datasets

Update the virtual 3390s more easily while the emulator is *not* running - that is, lift some of the restrictions/limitations imposed by pdsUtil. These specially formatted Linux files that are “virtual 3390s” are requested to have these capabiliti...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

ZD&T documentation about scenario where ZD&T Agent changed after deployment

Provide documentation or technote about the scenario where the ZD&T Agent changed or no longer available after image deployment. How to upgrade existing ZD&T target image? How to replace (if possible) the ZD&T agent?
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Planned for future release

ZD&T web server (Enterprise Edition) to show all files located in SFTP Server

Customer would like to have the option inside of ZD&T web server (Enterprise Edition) via GUI to see the list of all files (volumes and dataset) located in SFTP server.
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Planned for future release

ZD&T Parallel Sysplex in Containers

Azure container support for a sysplex configuration is being requested.
over 3 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...
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 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 ...
about 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 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.
about 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

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