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Reduce volume size required during image creation

When TAz's On Demand discovery process is identifying all the volumes required for the image creation it will capture all space on each volume where a required data set is located. In some cases, there may be only 1 smaller dataset on a large volu...
5 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

Optimize SYSRES Volume Build Capacity

Currently, the ODE process for building SYSRES volumes requires a full volume snapshot of the source system. For example, in JPMC, the SS60 build scenario results in a storage requirement of 17.4 TB on both the Storage Server and the target VM. Th...
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Submitted

CICS & z/OS Connect Time inconsistent in report

When analyzing through CICS/PA a report of type ZCON we find discrepancies in the times that make it practically useless On one side, CICS appears in Local Time, but the z/OS Connect show the time in UTC. Could this not be unified? Also (obviating...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 1 Not under consideration

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, ...
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

Process Liberty SMF 120 for zOS Connect

Liberty SMF 120 Subtype 11 records SM120BBW has the time record when liberty received the zOS Connect request. Once the request is successfully dispatch to z/OS Connect, z/OS Connect records SMF123S1_TIME_ZC_ENTRY entry. Currently PA formats SMF 1...
over 4 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Make CICS PA able to run in zIIP engines.

Customer asked for the possibility to CICS PA run in zIIP processors. Bradesco uses the product intensively.
over 5 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Speed up process for provisioning of subsequent zOS images after have provisioned first one

When you use zODT in TAZ to provision the first zOS Image, you create for example the supplied stock zOS image, which is stored on a designated storage server. Then you provision the first one to for example a target Linux LPAR on z, this takes so...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Not under consideration

override IPL string via API

I want to be able to override IPL string in start API
8 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

Prompt for a formula field should include field description.

When using the Statistics Alert Definition panel to enter a new alert, the prompt key (PF4) allows you to see and select the field name. After selecting the field, only the field name is added to the panel. It would be nice if the field descriptio...
about 3 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration