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Z Development and Test Environment

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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

support and document 2 nic solution to deploying zd&t

zd&t should support and document deploying zd&t with 2 NICs which is easier and better from an operational point of view.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Allow changing the number of lines when loading with pdsUtil

When reloading a PDS member on a ZDT disk the source and target must have the same number of rows This is blocking when you have to customize a PDS member by increasing the number of rows you can not reload this member.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

support linux alias nics

the zd&t tools do not allow a Linux alias nic to be used as a destination address when defining details in the web guy. The tool auto-discovers the nic name such as enp0s31f6 but doesn't auto-discover the one I have to use (alias nic): enp0s31...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Obtain a utility like pdsUtil for de sequential DATASET

ZDT comes with a pdsUtil utility that allows PDS modification out of the run of the ZDT instance.That is, it allows the modification of PDS directly on the image file of a disk.We have the same need on a sequential file.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under consideration

License check during zD&T Deploy

Enhance the Deploy capability so licensing is verified and reported if failures.
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

zDT and z/OS maintenance

We would like to apply maintenance to our zDT environments without SMP administration work. We would like to apply PTFs in a more Agile way: easier, faster and without SMP overhead.
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

zDT Tools mainframe program re-install

Provide a compatibility mode for the zD&T mainframe components supporting zDT Tools for new versions.
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under 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)
about 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

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