Initializing Zowe z/OS runtime

Begin configuration of your installation of Zowe z/OS components by initializing Zowe z/OS runtime.

Required roles: system programmer

Use one of the following options to initialize Zowe z/OS runtime:

• Initialize Zowe maunually using zwe init command group
• Configure Zowe with z/OSMF workflows

Initialize Zowe manually using zwe init command group

After your installation of Zowe runtime, you can run the zwe init command to perform the following configurations:

• Initialize Zowe with copies of data sets provided with Zowe
• Create user IDs and security manager settings (Security Admin)
• Provide APF authorize load libraries (Security Admin)
• Configure Zowe to use TLS certificates (Security Admin)
• Configure VSAM files to run the Zowe caching service used for high availability (HA)
• Configure the system to launch the Zowe started task

For more information about this z/OS runtime initialization method, see Configuring Zowe with zwe init

Configure Zowe with z/OSMF workflows

Another option to initialize Zowe z/OS runtime is to configure Zowe with z/OSMF workflows. This method also performs the initization using the zwe init command group. You can use z/OSMF workflows to perform the following configurations:

• Configure the Zowe instance directory
• Enable the API ML gateway
• Enable the metrics service
• Enable the API catalog
• Enable automatic discovery
• Enable a caching service
• Enable an application server
• Enable the ZSS component
• Enable the jobs API
• Enable the files API
• Enable JES Explorer
• Enable MVS Explorer
• Enable USS Explorer

You can execute the Zowe configuration workflow either from a PSWI during deployment, or later from a created software instance in z/OSMF. Alternatively, you can execute the configuration z/OSMF workflow during the workflow registration process.

For more information about this z/OS runtime initialization method, see Configuring Zowe with z/OSMF Workflows.