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Z Development and Test Environment

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Remove 32 bit files from zD&T Linux targets

These files are part of the distribution/installation on the ZD&T targets: /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/libMD5CHAP.so /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/PwdGenUtility /opt/safenet_sentinel/common...
2 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Under review

Offer the creation of the user to manage the zVDT instance when the instance is deployed. (ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc)

When a new zPDT instance is deployed by using zVDT GUI, it requires an user created in the host system in advance to manage this new instance (usually ibmsys1, ibmsys2, etc). We suggest to create the user as part of deploy process instead of expec...
4 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Planned for future release

Support to run ZVDT on z/VM based Linux on Z Systems

The customer wants to use ZVDT on Linux on Z guests, which run on z/VM. Please make this scenario officially supported.
12 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future 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.
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

support for IPv6 during provisioning new zos

I want to be able to provision a new zos with an IPv6 address.
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

ZVDT License Server running natively on Linux on zSystems

The customer would like to have all ZVDT components (i.e.: License Server) running natively on Linux on zSystems. It would helpful to have all components in the same platform to avoid delays, gaps and extra costs.
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

ZVDT Web Server running natively on Linux on zSystems

The customer would like to have all ZVDT components (i.e.: Web Server - aka Provisioning tools) running natively on Linux on zSystems. It would helpful to have all components in the same platform to avoid delays, gaps and extra costs.
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

ZVDT - Managed Deployment

The customers want to a ZVDT managed deployment from provisioning tools. Something similar to what ZD&T has in place today. The idea is to avoid typos and mistakes using as much automation as possible.
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

TS010125970 Allow customization of Wazi Image Builder

Hi, On all our z/OS Sysplexes , we have a shared read-only root filesystem, as recommended by IBM for better performance and reliability. Wazi image builder requires a Jar file wibMainframeSFTP.jar to be copied to /usr/lpp/IBM/wib - a location tha...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Provide AWS message identifiers for oprmsg messages

The customer would like to see the message "1090 not running" that is returned when the instance is not running to be documented in the man files. A better solution would be to provide AWS message ids that could be looked up with the msginfo comma...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

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