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 IBM 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.
Try IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS on a live system, with zTrial.
Big Picture: Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS
1. Configure z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning and set up security.
2. Create a software services template.
3. Identify the consumers, such as application developers, and create the tenant.
4. Connect the template to tenants and create resource pools.
5. Approve, test and publish the template.
6. 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
IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS: An introduction.
IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS: CICS Scenario.
zTrial lets you try Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS on a live system, with cost or installation.
This blog post describes how to use Swagger with the APIs for Cloud Provisioning and Management
Provision z/OS Software with the z/OSMF Ansible collection from IBM
Find DevOps Agility with IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS
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.
July 1, 2021
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June 18, 2021
A Hot Topics article, DevOps Agility With IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS, was added to the Other resources tab in the Technical resources section.
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May 26, 2021
A link to the z/OSMF Ansible collection was added to the Other Resources tab in the Technical Resources section. Read the z/OSMF Ansible collection announcement here.
March 19, 2021
The Journey to hybrid cloud with IBM Z content solution was added to the Content solutions tab in 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 Technical Resources section.
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September 24, 2019
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June 25, 2019
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June 14, 2019
A link to the IBM Marketplace was removed.
A link to the z/OS Cloud Broker content solution was added.