IMS Operator Collection Overview
The IBM® IMS Operator Collection is part of the broader offering IBM Z® and Cloud Modernization Stack. It automates the management of your IMS systems.
What is IMS Operator Collection?
IBM Information Management System Operator Collection (IMS Operator Collection) is an Ansible® Operator collection that provides automation for provisioning and de-provisioning an IMS instance on one or more IBM Wazi Sandbox or IBM Extended z/OS® ADCD for Z Development and Test Environment endpoints.
What is IMS Operator?
IMS Operator Collection abstracts the complexity of certain IMS tasks and provides access to them on Red Hat® OpenShift® Platform. IMS Operator Collection can be imported into an instance for z/OS Cloud Broker running on Red Hat OpenShift Platform. After you import IMS Operator Collection into z/OS Cloud Broker, it creates an IMS Operator from the IMS Operator Collection.
How IMS Operator works?
IMS Operator allows system administrators and application developers to self-provision and statefully manage IMS resources that are defined in the operator collection. IMS users can use IMS Operator to provision an IMS system with a one-click, repeatable self-service automation.
This empowers developers to interact directly with z/OS resources without the need for any deep mainframe skills. It can create a more consistent systems management experience in development and test environments, accelerating time to market and delivery of new development features.
The following diagram explains how IMS Operator is used as a suboperator of z/OS Cloud Broker to enable the access to an IMS system:
Further reading
For more information about z/OS Cloud Broker, see Automating z/OS resources provisioning (z/OS Cloud Broker).
For more information about IBM IMS, see IBM IMS product documentation.