Ibm Cloud Provisioning And Management For Z Os Cics Scenario

Download or read book IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS: CICS Scenario written by Keith Winnard and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we show you a cloud services scenario on IBM z/OS®. In the scenario, we show you how to perform the following tasks: Subscribe to a service to provision an IBM CICS® system. Assign resources to the CICS system. Use a template to tailor the CICS service Publish the service in our Marketplace Use that service to create a CICS region and start it. Deprovision the CICS region once it is no longer required. We explain the basic terms that are associated with the cloud services and which roles play a part in creating, using, and maintaining a cloud service. We show you how we used IBM z/OSMF to provision a CICS Transaction Server (TS) System Management Single Server (SMSS) in a controlled laboratory environment. The goal of this paper is to provide you with an overview of how a cloud service can be created and used on z/OS. This paper is intended for infrastructure support staff and application development staff who require middleware to develop and maintain business applications that use middleware.