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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS Provisioning Toolkit
Categories Workflow
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 9, 2020

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(De-)Provision zCX instance with zospt

zCX instances get provisioned and removed using predefined z/OSMF workflows. The required workflow definition files already exist but lack of being fully automated: the first step which gathers instance information by user interaction and the last step(s) which provide a start/stop command for the instance have to be finished by hand.

We succeeded to get zospt to provision and deprovision a zCX instance with just a handful of modifications to the workflow definitions files of zCX. (This, without zCX leveraging the z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning functionality right now.) But by using our own modified workflows with zospt we are risking that we might not use the latest definitions file in the future.

This RFE proposes zospt to provide a new (set of) image(s) to be able to provision and deprovision a zCX instance ("container").

In addition, workflows which make modifications to an existing zCX instance (i.e. add data disks) should also be made available by zospt tooling without the need to reprovision a whole instance, for example by providing a Docker-like "update" command.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 21, 2020

    While we continue to support z/OS PT its capability is not actively being extended. A better approach would be to raise an RFE against zCX asking for your modifications to be incorporated. The suggestion to add an update command is interesting idea but goes beyond the comparable function in Docker and beyond what we intended for z/OS PT.

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