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On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS

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support other Linux distribution for the tool server

Actually, when you want to install ODTz, the tool server needs to be an Ubuntu distribution.But, in our company, the policy is to install only RHEL. So, can you add other type of distribution in your supported base? RHEL, SUSE, ...
2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Sysplex support

KB is using TSQ, NCS(Name Count Server) in CICS COBOL applicaion in sysplex environment and so, to test COBOL program using ODT, Syspolex support is essential to use TSQ, NCS.
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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
5 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 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
12 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...
almost 2 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Improve time for deploying image to target environment for ZVDT

Need to expedite how the z/os volumes are being copied to the Linux directories. This will reduce wait time for developers looking to exploit this environment
about 1 year 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.
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year 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
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0 Future consideration