Experiences and tips from a team of system programmers and testers who run a Parallel Sysplex on which we perform the final verification of a z/OS release and System z hardware and System Storage before they become generally available to clients.
IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) implements OpenStack API’s for creating, managing and destroying z/VM and KVM virtual guests. This document describes the process of preparing, capturing and deploying a z/VM virtual guest image with ICIC.