Setting up and connecting IBM Z
Installing Data Gate on Cloud requires a number of installation and configuration steps be performed on IBM Z and on Red Hat® OpenShift®. Additional steps are required to connect these systems.
Certain installation and configuration tasks might be best performed by people in different roles.
The tasks and steps in the following table should be preformed in the order listed in the table for ease of installing and configuring Data Gate on Cloud. However, depending on your environment, some steps might be optional if they are already complete (for example, if the Db2® for z/OS® subsystem is already running with all current maintenance, or if inbound network access to the Db2 for z/OS subsystem is already configured).
Because of the different user roles required and potentially different system environments, consider creating a high-level plan to manage, coordinate, and track all major planning, installation, and configuration activities, using this roadmap as a guide.
Type | Task | User role |
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Plan | Review the Prerequisites |
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Prepare | Configure inbound access to Db2 for z/OS: | z/OS system administrator or network administrator |
Prepare | Encrypt outbound network access from Db2 for z/OS to the Data Gate on Cloud service:
Important: Steps 2 and 3 require the Data Gate on Cloud endpoint, port, and IP address of the Data Gate on Cloud instance. If you have not yet completed the
AWS setup, you can still configure the
Policy Agent with proper planning for the hostname, IP address, and port.
|
z/OS system administrator or network administrator |
Install | Installing the Data Gate on Cloud backend on z/OS | z/OS system administrator or programmer |
Install | Installing Db2 for z/OS maintenance to enable Data Gate on Cloud Important: If you have installed
IBM Cloud® for use with the same Db2 for z/OS system, then these PTFs already exist. In this case,
skip this step.
|
z/OS system administrator or Db2 for z/OS installation system operator (Install SYSOPR authority) |
Configure | Configure Db2 for z/OS to support Data Gate on Cloud:
|
z/OS system administrator or Db2 for z/OS installation system operator (Install SYSOPR authority) |
Configure | Create and set up Data Gate on Cloud stored
procedures. Important: If you have installed IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS for use with the same Db2 for z/OS system, you already have the required stored
procedures. Besides, you are not allowed to create another set of stored procedures with the same
names. Therefore, you need not create an additional WLM environment, and you need not define
performance goals. In that case, skip the following steps.
|
z/OS system administrator or programmer |
Configure | Create Data Gate on Cloud users and grant privileges on Z |
|
Install and Configure | Provisioning a Db2 Warehouse on Cloud instance |
|
Install | Deploying on AWS | Red Hat OpenShift instance administrator |
User-role flow diagram requested by Vassil. See IDAA.