Mainframe from Scratch: Hardware Configuration and z/OS Build

Overview

This chapter is the starting point for providing you with the high-level information to understand the scope of our initial build and how we approach it.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•1.1, “Introduction” on page 4

•1.2, “Scenario” on page 4

 

1.1 Introduction

The simplest way to explain how to set up a mainframe hardware environment from scratch and install z/OS software on it is to show you. To this end, we defined a scenario and used the standard tool sets that are available to build that scenario.

The process of starting ...