Adding a source environment from a z/OS system on IBM Z physical hardware

To create components from a real IBM Z® environment, you need to configure an IBM Z mainframe first. Then, you can create components by extracting, compressing, and transferring artifacts from an existing z/OS® environment on IBM Z.

To create a new IBM Z mainframe source environment, complete the following steps:
  1. Click Source environments on the home page, or click the upper-right settings button to navigate to Source environments.
  2. Click Add source environment.
  3. Select the IBM Z platform source environment type.
  4. Specify a unique source environment name that can be identified when you create components or images.
  5. Enter the specified hostname and SSH port of the IBM Z mainframe system that is used to extract z/OS data.
  6. Specify the ZD&T z/OS Extraction tools installation directory. The default path is /usr/lpp/IBM/zdt/.
  7. Click Add source environment.
For the IBM Z mainframe systems that are added, you can edit or delete the existing source system.
Note: The configured mainframe system cannot be deleted if some components were created from the mainframe system.