Use cases

Learn about three typical use cases of ZVDT.

Use case 1: Isolated and on-premises development environments

z/OS system administrators or programmers: Define multiple components based on departments or projects, and keep them ready for developers to use on-demand, without the need of refreshing volumes. Create images from components for developers, and the latest changes of volumes are automatically picked up.

z/OS developers: Pick the predefined images to provision a z/OS instance on a Linux on IBM Z environment. Use the provisioned instance, which is an isolated and on-premises z/OS environment, where the z/OS operating system, middleware, and z/OS software can run unaltered with the full IBM Z instruction sets, to conduct early development activities. For example, this private environment can be used as a sandbox for prototyping and version-to-version migration.

Use case 2: Isolated and on-premises test environments

z/OS system administrators or programmers: Define multiple components based on departments or projects, and keep them ready for testers to use on-demand, without the need of refreshing volumes.

z/OS testers: Picks the predefined components to create images, and then provision a z/OS instance on a Linux on IBM Z environment. Use the provisioned instance, which is an isolated and on-premises z/OS environment with the same high performance, to conduct testing activities, for examples, z/OS software beta or version upgrade testing. After the testing is completed, deprovision the private instance.

Use case 3: Education environments for new z/OS developers

z/OS system administrators or programmers: Set up z/OS instances on a Linux on IBM Z environment as education environments for z/OS learners.

New z/OS developers: Use the education environments as a sandbox to learn z/OS, middleware, and DevOps tools without barriers.