A single flexible platform with the common tools and capabilities to modernize z/OS® environments and applications.
IBM® z/OS® Cloud Broker is a software product that provides access to z/OS resources and services from Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform, which enables you to integrate your z/OS infrastructure with hybrid multi-cloud environments and strategies.
IBM® z/OS Cloud Broker provides an operator, which is built from the Red Hat® and
z/OS Cloud Broker leverages Red Hat® Ansible automation to enable the implementation of stateful management of z/OS® resources and operations through a single control plane in Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform.
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, the z/OS resources from the catalog, without deep mainframe expertise. In this way, z/OS Cloud Broker allows for direct interaction with z/OS resources, and it empowers developers to use z/OS in a cloud-native way.
Before you install IBM® z/OS® Cloud Broker, you must meet the system and deployment requirements for OpenShift® Container Platform:
- x86 or Linux on IBM Z server that runs OpenShift Container Platform
- EC12 or higher IBM Z hardware
- OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 or higher
- z/OS 2.3 or higher
Make sure you have installed the OpenShift® command line tool. If you are using an OpenShift cluster that was deployed with the IBM
Read about how developers can create and work with a service instance here:
Install the z/OS® Cloud Broker operator by using the administrator role in the Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform web console. To install z/OS Cloud Broker, you must be granted the cluster-admin ClusterRole by using a ClusterRoleBinding. Only a cluster-admin role user can grant other users the cluster-admin access.
After you've installed z/OS Cloud Broker, set up your storage by creating a persistent volume claim (PVC), then create an instance of z/OS Cloud Broker by creating a ZosCloudBroker custom resource (CR) in OpenShift Container Platform.
Before you can begin creating and managing z/OS® resources from OpenShift® Container Platform, you need to configure z/OS Cloud Broker to use Ansible by doing the following:
- Create your z/OS endpoint(s)
- Import your operator collection
- Map your z/OS endpoint(s) to your operator collection
Note: An
With z/OS® Cloud Broker, you can install and manage z/OS resources by creating instances of z/OS software on RedHat® OpenShift®. Through the z/OS® Cloud Broker user interface, a system programmer can import and configure an operator collection. Using the administrator role on OpenShift® Container Platform web console, a system programmer has access to more detailed information about z/OS Cloud Broker and the “sub-operators“. With the administrator role, system programmers can also access the z/OS Cloud Broker URL and install z/OS software onto z/OS by creating an instance.
Learn more about how to get started with z/OS Cloud Broker.
Become part of the z/OS Cloud Broker community and join in the discussion.
Experience a guided walk-through of how to build a new operator collection that performs RACF user management against a z/OS environment.
Learn about how modernizing and innovating on IBM Z just got a lot easier with the new release of the IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack.
Learn about how to harness the potential of the IBM operator collection SDK and Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant.
Watch the two-part tutorial video on how to build a new operator collection that performs RACF user management against a z/OS environment.
See an overview of how z/OS Cloud Broker gives application developers access to z/OS resources for rapid, cloud-native, development.
Learn about running digital banking applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with Db2 for z/OS, accessible through z/OS Cloud Broker.
Learn about creating a z/OS CICS Region to run Banking applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform through z/OS Cloud Broker.
Learn how to create a WebSphere Liberty Profile (WLP) server from OpenShift Container Platform through z/OS Cloud Broker.
Learn how to use the z/OS Cloud Broker to create a z/OS Connect instance and manage z/OS resources with a modern Continuous Integration pipeline.
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