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Z Development and Test Environment

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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

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...
about 3 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?
over 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.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Planned for future release

Needs explicit error message when incorrect license is used

When an incorrect license is used, zDT fails to start with errors: AWSEMI315E zPDTA License Unavailable for CPU 2AWSEMI315E zPDTA License Unavailable for CPU 0AWSEMI315E zPDTA License Unavailable for CPU 1...***************************************...
almost 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

redbook on how to convert sysplex lpar to a stand alone lpar

Customers find it very hard to more a sysplex configured lpar to a stand alone lpar that zd&t could use. IBM should provide a redbook or a methodology to do it, so customers do not have to figure it out for themselves.
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

zD&T utility to copy data from zD&T file to real z/OS volume

zD&T had a handy facility hckd2ckd to migrate data from real z/os volume to zPDT linux file. Our clients had a requirement to copy data from zPDT linux file to real z/os volume.
over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

ZD&T Parallel Sysplex in Containers

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

ZDT Tools API interface : Provide API to request License Status

New API needed !When using the Query_License script( /opt/IBM/LDK/query_license), it returns informations regarding licensing (logins CPU, max logins CPU, currently active sessiosn with associatied IP adress,...) We need to get this functionnality...
almost 6 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...
almost 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

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