Roles and responsibilities

This information is written from the point of view of the automation administrator, who is responsible for overseeing the successful installation and deployment of SA z/OS.

The automation administrator is responsible for the listed actions:

  • Understand the capabilities and requirements of SA z/OS.
  • Negotiate an initial plan for installation and deployment to one or more test systems. Subsequent plans are needed to deploy it to more test and production systems.
  • Use the SA z/OS Customization Dialog to model the resources and automation policies on the systems that SA z/OS is going to automate. See Chapter Customization
  • Activate the SA z/OS programs to load the policy the automation administrator defines and tests.
  • Educate the operators about how to best work with SA z/OS.
  • Refine, update, and maintain the automation policy for the systems that SA z/OS is deployed to.

During this process (which is expected to take several days), the assistance of a number of other individuals within their organization is required:

System programmers

System programmers have low-level access to the operating system, are able to run SMP/E installations, install procedures and programs and move data. System programmers do all these tasks.

Capacity planners

Capacity planners know how much space and spare compute capacity is available on the customers’ systems and are responsible for the timely provision of more capacity. Capacity planners need to incorporate the deployment of SA z/OS into their plans.

Security administrators

Security administrators define and maintain the security databases on the customers’ systems. Security administrators are needed to create profiles and define permissions so that SA z/OS can be used.

Operators

Operators are the ultimate users of SA z/OS, managing the computer systems that SA z/OS is installed on. Operators are responsible for any manual operations that are required for the computer system, including recovering from any problems or failures that occur. SA z/OS automates their basic duties, so the users need to learn how to work with it to accomplish their goals. For the basic operations tasks, see Chapter Operations