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Z Development and Test Environment

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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 Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Invalidate LINKLST ADD for "ALIAS DSN" in the DSNAME parameter with an error message.

justifications: LNKLST activation during IPL will fail with alias DSN due to the catalog address space is not yet available to resolve the base DSN. Currently, dynamic LNKLST activation after IPL is successful when/where the catalog address spa...
almost 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 5 Not under consideration

Licensing server must show fully qualified hostnames

I want to restrict access to only allow certain host names https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zdt/13.3.0?topic=edition-configuring-authorization but licensing server does not show FQDN. Because licensing server show only hostname there is a chance that s...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

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.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

allow for zd&t docker image to be loaded from a repository

The customer would like to load the zd&t docker image from a repository of their choosing.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Create Volumes that can grow Dynamically in zD&T

Currently, allocating a Volume in the zD&T implementation means creating a FULL SIZE Volume at initial allocation. This can create pressure on the User to allocate "up front" a LOT of space even though this space will not be needed right away....
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

adcd install advanced archive for DFSMSHSM

I am interested in trying to use HSM to backup to a NAS......... and I learning about (and blogging about) IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aafd/1.1) so I can backup to minio on Linux
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Additional Linux distributions support - CentOS

Looking at hosting zd&t in the cloud, it would be nice to have a no-cost option as far as OS is concerned. CentOS Linux is free - it would help keep costs down.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

ZD&T for development of crypto applications

Invoking the crypto function Unique Key Derive (CSNBUKD) with parameter 'K3IPEK' requires access to Access Control Point (ACP) "Unique Key Derive – K3IPEK" which is disabled by default in the Coprocessor. To enable the ACP it is required to use a ...
almost 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 5 Not under consideration

ZDT Tools interface : Advanced DSN patterns in Component creation from IBM Z

In the Tools Server of the ZDT Solution, I would suggest to enhance the DATASET research filter in the view " Create a component from Zos System Files" to be able to setup complex filters.
about 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

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