Cloud Provisioning and Management content solution for z/OS
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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 IBM Cloud Private (ICP).
IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management is available through z/OSMF, which provides a web browser-based user interface as well as REST APIs.
Big Picture: A Cloud Provisioning & Management Solution
Configure z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning and set up security.
Create a software services template.
Identify the consumers, such as application developers, and create the tenant.
Connect the template to tenants and create resource pools.
Approve, test and publish the template.
Make the software service available in a marketplace.
How to get started with Cloud Provisioning & Management for z/OS
Overview
Set up Cloud Provisioning by defining roles, enabling the pre-requisite plug-ins and specifying the security mode (automatic or manual). If the defaults are not appropriate, define the cloud domain (systems) and tenants (users).If you’re not already using z/OSMF, you may need to configure z/OSMF.
Planning
Cloud Provisioning roles include a landlord (z/OS system programmer), domain administrator (middleware system programmer), WLM and network administrators, and consumers (application developers).
As the landlord, you define:
- The systems to use for Cloud Provisioning (the domain). A default domain and tenant (users) help you get started.
- Whether to perform security updates manually or allow Cloud Provisioning to perform them automatically. Best practice is automatic security.
Steps
Update parmlib member IZUPRMxx to enable pre-requisite plug-ins and to specify automatic or manual security.
Work with the security administrator to set up security for Cloud Provisioning using the IZUPRSEC sample, which enables access to the Cloud Provisioning tasks in z/OSMF, Resource Management and Software Services.
Overview
After your z/OS system programmer has identified you as the domain administrator, create templates for z/OS software provisioning.
Planning
Obtain workflow and related files from the software provider.
Use information included with the files to understand what you need to customize – for example, input variables, JCL, actions, and approvers.
Consider whether to use the default tenant or create a customized tenant, which defines the users who can provision software.
Obtain workflow and other files:
CICS V5 (download z/OS Provisioning Toolkit)
z/OS Connect (download z/OS Provisioning Toolkit)
Steps
To prepare a software services template and provision software, you perform these steps using the Software Services task of z/OSMF.
Overview
Make z/OS software services available to consumers (such as an application development team) through a self-service marketplace. Choose the approach that is best for your enterprise.
Planning
Determine how you want to make z/OS software services available to your consumers.
You might use:
- z/OS Cloud Broker to make software services avaialble through IBM Cloud Private
- An enterprise self-service cloud marketplace
- z/OS Provisioning Toolkit
- Urban Code Deploy z/OSMF Plugin
- Zowe Command Line Interface
- The z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning sample marketplace
- The Software Services task in z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning
Steps
To modify an existing marketplace or create a new marketplace, begin by learning about the z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning REST APIs by reviewing the source code for the Marketplace and Marketplace Administration plug-ins to see examples of REST API invocation or by using Swagger documentation of the z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning REST APIs.
z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning REST APIs
Use Swagger to display z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning REST APIs
To enable the Marketplace plug-in provided with z/OSMF, use the following information:
Overview
Consumers such as application developers can consume and manage the software services that have been made available through a self-service marketplace or other means.
Planning
Focus on your application design and development. You can determine when you need the environment.
Steps
Provision and manage software services using the method that’s provided for you in your enterprise, which might be:
- z/OS Cloud Broker to make software services avaialble through IBM Cloud Private
- An enterprise self-service cloud marketplace
- z/OS Provisioning Toolkit
- Urban Code Deploy z/OSMF Plugin
- Zowe Command Line Interface
- The z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning sample marketplace
- The Software Services task in z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning
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IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS: An introduction.
IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS: CICS Scenario.
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The IBM Marketplace provides various resources to help you understand and implement Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS.
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zTrial lets you try Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS on a live system, with cost or installation.
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.
NEW! How to create a template in IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management
Learn how to create a template
NEW! How to create a tenant and resource pool in IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management
Learn how to create a tenant and resource pool
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
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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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
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.
What's new
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.