z/OS Cloud Broker overview

IBM® z/OS® Cloud Broker provides access to z/OS resources and services from Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. You can use z/OS Cloud Broker to modernize mainframe platforms by integrating your z/OS investments with hybrid multicloud environments and strategies.

By using z/OS Cloud Broker, cloud administrators and system programmers can expose z/OS resources in the OpenShift Container Platform catalog. Application developers can then access, without using any specialized skills, the z/OS resources from the catalog and bind the provisioned resources with their cloud-native applications. In this way, z/OS Cloud Broker allows self-service consumption of z/OS resources, and it empowers developers to modernize mainframe applications and use z/OS in a cloud-native way.

z/OS® Cloud Broker can provide in OpenShift Container Platform the z/OS resources and services that have already been defined by using the IBM Cloud™ Provisioning and Management (CP&M) plugin in z/OSMF.