Continuous integration capabilities

You might be facing different challenges depending on your role:

• For application developers, turnaround time to get test environments is always long. Sometimes their requests are misunderstood, and rework is required. Test environment setup is not self-service.
• System and database administrators often receive various types of application test requests from developers. They often find themselves unsure of what needs to be configured and set up to prepare the systems to run their tests.
• IT operators sometimes find resources not properly allocated compared to the resource plan. It takes a lot of time and effort to configure the security settings for those newly defined resources.
• CIOs might find that their organizational agility and efficiency are decreasing due to too much manual effort to set up application testing environments. They face many challenges from other executives in their organizations to move the applications off of the mainframe.

Db2 CI/CD Expert, together with IBM® Unified Management Server for z/OS®, can solve your pain points, in following ways:

• Each application developer can self-provision a copy of their application into their own isolated testing environment, make changes, test, and check in the changes, with minimal to no interaction with administrators. They can deprovision the provisioned objects when they are no longer needed.
• System and database administrators can review, approve, and promote developer’s object changes with confidence. They can also set rules and standards and have oversight to changes if necessary.
• IT operators can manage resource allocation and security control with minimal effort. They can configure and account for the amount of system resources required to support application development.
• CIOs can empower their development teams and shrink their development schedules by providing self-provisioning capabilities, leading to better organizational agility and efficiency.