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Z Development and Test Environment

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Confirm zDT Running in a Docker Container is Supported

Include Docker containerisation in the list of supported run environments. We'd be more than happy to have this caveated (e.g. on RHEL, with the image based on RHEL, etc) to limit the testing requirements for the support team.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Delivered

Ability to add ZIIP when deploying Instances

Ability to add ZIIP Processor during provissionning
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

ZD&T product extended dataset type support required

We will work on a fix for '0C4' which supposed to address on the extraction issue.Regarding on the restoring issue(during deployment), unfortunately we don't support restoring extended sequential data set for now. If this is critical to you, I'd s...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

Install the emulator directly on the target environment

ZD&T EE v12 offers only one installation method to deploy the ZD&T emulator, that is via ZD&T EE Web Tools. The installation methods should include direct and command line install in the target environment. Note that this installation ...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

Improve the image extraction experience for Z Virtual Dev and Test

Current process of creating custom images are very complex. Need lot of assistance from a system programmer and storage administrator to discover and identify the volumes needed during image creation . Today there is nothing in the ZVDT solution t...
about 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Delivered

Add compression when importing volumes

Add compression when importing volumes
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

Certificat usage when using the IMPORT function.

User and Certificat usage ability when using the IMPORT function.
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

Deleting Images on FTP server

In ZDT V12 is impossible to delete the old images on FTP server.
over 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

OPRMSG output to separate files

Customer Société Générale is using zD&T and OPRMSG to send commands to their z/OS system instances.However, output of each OPRMSG command is sent into a log file with all other output from MVS. Société Générale would like to have a separate fi...
almost 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Delivered

performance improvement for zd&t

Customers found zd&t very slow particularly running Java/WAS workloads. They asked that zd&t be changed to support more than 1 channel so that more than 1 concurrent i/o could be run if the Linux disk subsystem supported it.
almost 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Delivered