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Z Development and Test Environment

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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...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

ZD&T use of other ssh port than 22

ZD&T assumes the default ssh port (22) but the customer uses a different one.
over 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.
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Query zD&T License Count

A REST api to return the number of licenses in use and the total number of licenses. This would be applicable to all types of licenses (ex: Enterprise and Parallel Sysplex)
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Need documentation on what to backup and restore on the ZD&T Web server

If the ZD&T Web server is on an image that needs to be rebuilt then what needs to be backed up and restored: database, repository storage, license server if applicable, ...
almost 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

Reduce time to provision ZVDT image

exploit copyonwrite filesystem for extremely fast provisioning of image. Enhance devlopers productivity
7 months 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.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

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