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On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS

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post SMPE instructions for ADCD products

Hi I would like to know post-SMPE instructions for all the ADCD products so I can do the maintenance of products I'm entitled to via shop z. Because I don't want to provision a new instance with a new level of ADCD and migrate my data. Regards Vitek
16 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

add SLES support for zD&T

Currently all of zD&T is only officially supported w/RHEL or Ubuntu - missing SLES. Clients who have standardized their IT on SLES, esp. in regulated industries, cannot run zD&T in a supported manner. It would be good to get SLES support f...
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Provide an appliance form factor for zVDT

Shared Services Canada (Government of Canada) is planning to use ZVDT for thousands of developers. This would allow for easier management of the ZVDT images with their hybrid cloud solutions
7 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

MacVTap persistence needed for ZVDT

MacVTAP is manually defined for each instance and are not persistent. All ZVDT users would benefit from this.
8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to associate roles in ZVDT with LDAP

This technology will be used by a large number of developers who currently have different roles and responsibilities in our organization. By leveraging LDAP roles to assign/deny access to ZVDT custom built images would make it easier to manage the...
8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to start and stop the z/OS instance from the ZVDT webui

Multiple developers will need to launch these images from a ui and this would be a great convenience to provide this feature
8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ZD&T Fixed/Term License Renewals are not clearly visible in LKC, nor are the licenses available until the day after the current/existing licenses expire.

The problems: 1) The renewal Sales Order shows in LKC, but simply says “No licenses available for this Order” with no indication that this will ever change. 2) There is guaranteed ZD&T License outage which will vary depending on the customer l...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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...
11 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

HSBC UK - VTP Recording and/or Replay Filter Enhancement

VTP RFE: Can VTP limit the recording to only the application-owned modules necessary for the test scope using either include or exclude filter? Then at REPLAY, VTP only executes the selected application-ownedprograms that have been recorded and it...
over 3 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Reduce time to provision ZVDT image

exploit copyonwrite filesystem for extremely fast provisioning of image. Enhance devlopers productivity
8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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