Creating a z/OS Wazi aaS custom image

You can use IBM Wazi Image Builder to create your own z/OS-based IBM Wazi as a Service (Wazi aaS) custom image and import the custom image into IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Cloud. You can then use the custom image to create a virtual server instance in the IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure.

IBM Wazi as a Service (Wazi aaS) is available in the Japan (Tokyo), Brazil (São Paulo), Canada (Toronto), United Kingdom (London), Spain (Madrid), US East (Washington DC), and US South (Dallas) regions.

IBM Wazi Image Builder is a separately orderable product from IBM Passport Advantage. Extra requirements are needed to use Wazi Image Builder. The image cost is the premium that is applied to cover the cost of technologies that allows for z/OS dev and test images to run on IBM Z hardware on IBM’s cloud infrastructure as a service layer.

The z/OS Wazi aaS custom image must meet the following requirements:

• qcow2 format
• z/OS 2.4 or z/OS 2.5 operating system
• See Prerequisites for required PTF fixes on z/OS and other IBM software products to allow them to run as a guest of alternate IBM hypervisor, IBM Z Hypervisor as a Service (zHYPaaS).

IBM Wazi Image Builder is licensed only for development, testing, employee education, or demonstration of your applications that run on z/OS. This product must not be used for production workloads of any kind, nor robust development workloads, production module builds, preproduction testing, stress testing, or performance testing.

For details about getting IBM Wazi Image Builder license keys and activation kits, go to the IBM Support Licensing page. To download the software, follow the instructions on IBM Passport Advantage®.

For details about installing, configuring, and using IBM Wazi Image Builder, see IBM Wazi as a Service documentation.