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Z Development and Test Environment

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ZD&T use of other ssh port than 22

ZD&T assumes the default ssh port (22) but the customer uses a different one.
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Upgrade supplied CL/SuperSession to v3.2

ADCD comes with "5601-B28 IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS 2.1". This RFE requests that "5698-CL3 IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS 3.1" be supplied instead.
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Add retry logic for connection failures

I miss connection retry when the network is flaky.1) when entering credentials for VM or zOS you validate credentials by connecting host. In case you get connection errors could you retry eg 3 times with 1sec delay before you raise an error. (in c...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Manage 3270 terminals into Z

Integrate 3270 terminal over the web browser in IBM ee so I can access TSO and MASTER console
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Cloud Agnostic Interface

In order to support multiple cloud providers, define a pluggable interface or an adaptor interface that will be able to accommodate a few different major cloud providers, such as * Google compute engines * Amazon Some cloud providers support the a...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

adcd install advanced archive for DFSMSHSM

I am interested in trying to use HSM to backup to a NAS......... and I learning about (and blogging about) IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aafd/1.1) so I can backup to minio on Linux
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

RBAC for components & images

Provide read access right to individual images/components so only selected individuals/groups or all users have access to image.
over 2 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.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

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 ...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

RBAC for ZD&T instances

Add role based access to zdnt instances
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration