About the WebSphere Customization Toolbox and the z/OS Profile Management Tool
The WebSphere Customization Toolbox provides the following tools that you can use to customize or migrate your IBM BPM environment: the z/OS Profile Management Tool (zPMT) and the z/OS Migration Management Tool.
You can use zPMT to create the artifacts
that are required for creating and augmenting profiles for stand-alone servers, dmgrs, and managed nodes in the z/OS system. You can use the z/OS Migration Management Tool to configure and process definitions for migrating IBM BPM profiles.
For more information about the z/OS Migration
Management Tool, see the 
WebSphere Application Server Information Center.
zPMT provides the following main functions:
- Captures information into a customization definition that can be used to create IBM BPM runtime environments on remote z/OS systems
- Generates customization response files and customization instructions, based on the captured information
- Generates customized job control language (JCL) batch jobs and an augmentation response file that can be used to create and configure the z/OS runtime environment
- Uploads the JCL batch jobs and customization files to the z/OS system
To use zPMT, install and start the WebSphere Customization Toolbox.
The WebSphere Customization Toolbox and its component tools are supported on Windows and Linux operating systems only. As a result, the JCL batch jobs and customization files must be uploaded to the z/OS system in order to create and configure the profile. IBM BPM includes a zpmt.sh script that runs on the z/OS system, and which you can alternatively use to generate JCL batch jobs and customization files. When you run zpmt.sh, a customization response file is required to provide input to the script.
You can use the Create action of zPMT to specify customization settings in a series of windows and to save this information to a customization response file. This file is created as a text file of name-value pairs and is stored in a customization location, which is a directory structure that you specify on your hard disk drive.
After creating a customization definition, you can use the Process action of zPMT to generate a set of JCL jobs, an augmentation response file, and other data files, and to upload the files to your target z/OS system. The files are placed in two partitioned data sets named CNTL and DATA:
- The CNTL data set contains the generated JCL jobs that you can use to create a WebSphere Application Server for z/OS profile and augment it with IBM BPM for z/OS functions. This data set also holds the generated customization instructions for creating and augmenting the profile.
- The DATA data set contains the augmentation response file used to augment the profile.
You can use zPMT to allocate these data sets as part of the upload process.
If you want to make updates to an augmentation response file, you can use the Regenerate action of zPMT to change previously defined customization values, and then use the Process action to regenerate an updated augmentation response file.
You can share your zPMT customization definitions with others.
Tip: The process of planning a cell is the same with zPMT
as it was with the Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
panels. zPMT prompts you for the same information as the ISPF panels, but in a few cases, in a slightly different sequence. Naming conventions
and port allocation charts are the same with zPMT as they were with the ISPF panels. Additionally, supplementary material that helps establish
naming conventions and port allocations is provided in Techdoc WP102075 in the IBM Support Portal.
Types of configuration that you can build with zPMT
You can build three types of configuration with zPMT. The following table cross-references zPMT terms with the ISPF terms.
| zPMT option | Equivalent WebSphere ISPF option |
|---|---|
| IBM BPM for z/OS stand-alone Process Server | Stand-alone application server node |
| IBM BPM for z/OS dmgr | Network deployment node |
| IBM BPM for z/OS managed (custom) node | Empty managed node |
The zPMT customization response file is similar in concept, but not identical in format, to the SAVECFG files for the ISPF dialogs.