Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS content solution

Welcome to the Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS content solution, your homepage for technical resources. Use it to improve the agility of your DevOps team, integrate z/OS® into your hybrid cloud, and transform your IT infrastructure.

With IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS, you create software service templates that provision IBM® middleware, such as IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS®), IBM Db2®, IBM Information Management System (IMS™), IBM MQ, and IBM WebSphere Application Server. You can track software instances that were provisioned from those templates. Users can quickly provision and deprovision an environment as needed through a self-service software services marketplace, with no need for intervention by a system administrator. With z/OS Cloud Broker, you can provision the software services through OpenShift.

IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management is available through z/OSMF, which provides a web browser-based user interface as well as REST APIs.

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Big Picture: Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS

pictogram for step one - configure and set up

Configure z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning and set up security.

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Create a software services template.

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Identify the consumers, such as application developers, and create the tenant.

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Connect the template to tenants and create resource pools.

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Approve, test and publish the template.

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Make the software service available in a marketplace.

How to get started with Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS

Technical resources for Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS

NEW! Playlist of How-To videos

Use the videos in this playlist to see how to configure Cloud Provisioning, create a template, create a tenant and resource pool, configure a network resource pool, test and publish a template, and set up a consumer.

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NEW! How to create a template in IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management

Learn how to create a template.

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NEW! How to create a tenant and resource pool in IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management

Learn how to create a tenant and resource pool.

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NEW! How to configure a network resource pool in IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management

Learn how to complete a tenant and resource pool using the Network Configuration Assistant

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NEW! How to test and publish a template in IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management

Learn how to test and publish a template

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Accelerate Provisioning of z/OS Middleware with IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS

Learn how IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS can improve the agility of your DevOps team and transform your IT infrastructure

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NEW! How to configure IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS

Learn how a system programmer can set up Cloud Provisioning in z/OSMF

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NEW! How to set up a consumer in IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS

Learn how a domain administrator can enable an application programmer to create a middleware instance.

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What's new

What's new in IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS?

For a comprehensive list of new features added to IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS check out the What’s New section in the C3.

For information about the cloud 1.5 enhancements see the IBM Community blog.

For information about the cloud 1.4 enhancements see the IBM Community blog.

March 19, 2021

The Journey to hybrid cloud with IBM Z content solution was added to the Content solutions tab of the Technical resources section.

June 16, 2020

The article Use Swagger to document APIs for Cloud Provisioning applications was added to the Other Resources tab of the Resources section.

A link to a blog post on using the Workflow Editor was added to the Other Resources tab of the Technical Resources section.

September 24, 2019

Links to the IBM Marketplace were removed.

A link to Zorow: z/OS Open Repository of Workflows was added.

June 25, 2019

How-to videos were added to the Multimedia tab of the Resources section.

June 14, 2019

A link to the IBM Marketplace was removed.

A link to the z/OS Cloud Broker content solution was added.