IBM® Z® Development and Test Environment is a platform for mainframe application development, testing, demonstration and education. It enables any z/OS® software to run on a x86-compatible on-premise system or cloud instance by emulating the IBM Z instruction sets and using virtual CPs, I/O, and other devices.
Do you know IBM ZD&T today is offered in three editions: Personal Edition, Enterprise Edition and Parallel Sysplex? Learn more about the editions and the capabilities in each of these edition through here - Overview
So, Whats new?
- Redesigned User Interface, Improved REST APIs, New Docker Target Environment, New volume component creation from existing ZD&T in Enterprise Edition
- Updated Application Developers Controlled Distribution (ADCD) - Preconfigured softwares, Latest Z15 instruction set in all editions
- New community to connect with us
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Now lets look at the new features:
Redesigned UI: The task flow is revamped in the new ZD&T Enterprise Edition UI for a streamlined and more robust user experience with tool tips to guide you on your choices.
Docker Support: Provisioning into a Docker environment is possible. Each Docker environment now supports a maximum of five containers. In a Docker environment, each container runs their own emulated z/OS® instances and will be allocated 100 ports for clients to access services on each of those emulated z/OS instances.
Improved REST APIs:
The APIs are being transformed to use the OpenAPI v3 specification as well as a consistent approach to reference all artifacts via a UUID that are created or used in the ZD&T. These APIs now follows kebab-case naming convention for all input properties, output properties, and API endpoint labels.
Volume component creation from existing ZD&T:
After you add a Linux running a ZD&T emulator source environment, you can quickly create a volume component, which compresses and transfers existing volume files from an emulated z/OS on ZD&T that runs on a host Linux® system to the storage.
Extended ADCD:
Application Developers Controlled Distribution (ADCD) z/OS Version 2 Release 4 May Edition of 2020 is available with all ZD&T 13.0.0 editions.
The following products are added.
- IBM Z® Distribution for Zowe™ 1.0.0
- IBM Z Development and Test Environment Enterprise 12.0.5
- IBM® Dependency Based Build 01.00.00
- IBM UrbanCode® Deploy for z/OS 7.0.5
- IBM Engineering Workflow Management 7.0.0 (RTC)
- IBM Enterprise PL/I for z/OS 5.3.0
- IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.3.0
z/OS 2.4 and all incorporated products that are provided maintenance are updated to PUT2003/RSU2003.
Useful Resources:
Library - Collection of Announcement Letters
IBM Knowledge Center
Defect fixes/RFEs: Learn more
IBM Z Trial that lets you explore ZD&T capabilities: Coming Soon