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Z Development and Test Environment

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We are attempting to extact zOS source components from the mainframe, our EC2 Instance (target) web manager is hosted in AWS VPC. We are able to successfully ssh and SFTP files from source to target from the same EC2 server through the terminal. H...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Is a defect

Service Management Unite Automation and Z-ChatOps included in ZDT.

"Service Management Unite Automation" and "Z-ChatOps" are included with the following products (free of charge): IBM Z Service Management Suite IBM Z Service Automation Suite IBM Z Monitoring Suite IBM Z System Automation As ADCD system includes "...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Include IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2.1 to ADCD stack

I'm z/OS System Programmer and I use ZDT Personal Edition and ADCD to learn about installations/configurations and test new functions in z/OS. ZDT is mainly designed for developing, but i think it is a very useful tool for System Programmers too. ...
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Remove requirement for compile before moving modules from zD&T to production

Currently the zD&T license agreement specifies that a final compile (build) must be done on the actual z System prior to putting a module in to the Production environment. We want the ability to move load modules from our dev/test environments...
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

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

add a simulation mode during image deployment

add a simulation mode during the image deployment in order to have the list of deployed volumes
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under 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.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Webtool - add the possibility for another user to restart zDT

Several users, with different accounts, are managing the zDT instances. We need a new functionnality in the WebTool that detect if the userid is not the one who started the process, check if he can be root, and upgrade his priviledges when restart...
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Restructure the Panel "Resume deployment Information"

Reorder/Resize the window sent when requesting the choice "Resume Deployment" for an image which did not start previously.
almost 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration