Adding an IBM® Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS template for use with z/OS Provisioning Toolkit
The foundation of provisioning with z/OS PT is a z/OSMF template. The template pulls in the z/OSMF workflows and associated actions and variables that define both the environment to be provisioned, and how you want to provision it. You load the template into z/OSMF by using the z/OSMF web interface. After you load a template, you can use z/OS PT to build an image based on that template.
Before you begin
Before you add a Cloud Provisioning template, follow the steps here: Preparing to use z/OS Provisioning Toolkit with IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS.
About this task
For a reminder of how templates work with z/OS PT, see What is z/OS Provisioning Toolkit?.
The following procedure summarizes how to add a template to z/OSMF and prepare it to use with z/OS PT. For more information about how to complete each step, see z/OSMF product documentation.
For a walk-through of the process by using either a CICS® or z/OS Connect EE template, see Adding a CICS template by using IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS or Adding a z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition template by using IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS.
Procedure
What to do next
Use z/OS PT to build images from the template that you loaded. See Building an image with z/OS Provisioning Toolkit for details.