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Z Development and Test Environment

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enhance discovery using taddm z/os dla

the zd&t tools should provide generalized capability to move/copy any subsystem from z/os to zd&t. This would be much easier if it used taddm z/os dla to do the discovery. In this way cics, ims, mq, broker etc etc could all be candidates f...
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Remove 32bit licinsing executables

The security department has marked the 32bit components of the licensing component on a zd&t target as a security risk. We need to be able to choose not to install these components. Files in /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_se...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

zPDT Licence Manager Installation

We are using zDNT environment for the testing & training purposes. We have token server, License Manager(LM) & zDNT instances & all are on AWS cloud VM. We have faced issue with LM connectivity. As per the IBM guidelines we have instal...
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under 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.
over 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...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

ZDT Webtools server Export/Import Images

We request a new enhancement :Ability to export an image localized on a Webtool Server (web1) to another WebTool Server( WEB2).This request is motivated by : - The need to secure our images on multiple Server.- Several problem encounters during mi...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

ZDT Tools API /zdtrs/appServices/applications/ with more granularity

Need of ZDT Tools API /zdtrs/appServices/applications/ with more granularity When using ZDT Tools API /zdtrs/appServices/applications/ the list returned by APi is to large and too detailled.Could you add filters to help us to list available image ...
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

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.
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 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.
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under 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
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

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