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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 15, 2021

ZD&T V13+ - Organized/Systematic zOS Shutdown

The ZDT Tools Deploy panel provides an option to "Stop emulated zOS", this does a hard stop of the emulator, not proving a graceful systematic shutdown of zOS and jes purge. If this option is selected, Tools must shutdown zOS in a organized manner.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Feb 28, 2023

    This RFE will be closed and combined into ZDT-I-97 (ZD&T V13+ - Organized/Systematic zOS Shutdown & IPL). Thank you.

  • Guest
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    Feb 9, 2022

    Please provide us a hook where we can run custom code on stop event to address the graceful shutdown of zos.

    If you provide hooks to allow to run custom code these RFE can be addressed
    1) https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=153851
    2) https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=153854

  • Guest
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    Mar 25, 2021

    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.