Infrastructure
Creating and maintaining the infrastructure to support any IBM System involves setting up:
- System resources, both hardware and software
- Skills of your staff
- Tools and procedures (used to create, build, test, and support your solution on the target platform)
System Resources
You need hardware, operating system, and related software resources to develop and test your on the targeted IBM System. If you are an IBM Business Partner, PartnerWorld may help you acquire the system or you may gain temporary access via the IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners..
Skills
Your staff will need skills of various kinds for the target platform:
- System administration to run your new development/testing system
- Developers, build team, and product testing who use the new systems
- Product support team who need to "speak the language" of your new customers and to reproduce problems
IBM and third parties offer many kinds of training from classroom instruction to self-paced on-line course material. Education materials including roadmaps for the IBM Systems and a variety of third party training options are linked to from the infrastructure pages for the specific IBM System.
Tools and Procedures
As part of the port, you will need to determine whether you should or can use the same tools and procedures that you currently use on other platforms, or whether there are new ones for the new platform. These tools and procedures involve:
- Build and other development tools
- Quality Assurance and testing tools
- Support procedures
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