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Welcome

Welcome to the IBM watsonx Assistant for Z for Technical Sales Level 3 lab and demonstration guide! The goal of this lab is to provide you with the knowledge and tools to demonstrate IBM watsonx Assistant for Z.

This lab is not intended to serve as an in-depth study of IBM watsonx Assistant for Z, watsonx, or IBM Z, rather the focus is on learning how to deliver a client demonstration of IBM watsonx Assistant for Z. More specifically, the focus is on the end-user creating queries and using trusted automations through skills that are suggested by IBM watsonx Assistant for Z.

Other aspects of IBM watsonx Assistant for Z including creating and configuring assistants, importing and creating new skills, and ingestion of client documentation are not covered in this demonstration guide. To learn more and get hands-on with these additional capabilities, check out the Velocity Pilot information in IBM Technology Zone (ITZ) here. Watch for a Level 4 course in the future.

Obtaining the IBM watsonx Assistant for Z Technical Sales Intermediate badge (Level 3)

Business Partner technical sellers must pass a short quiz upon completing the course. This quiz consists of multiple-choice questions, with four possible responses (and only one correct answer) for each question. The questions do not test your understanding of IBM watsonx Assistant for Z, rather, they validate your use of the provided demonstration environment.

IBM technical sellers must develop and record a Stand and Deliver presentation. This video is intended to simulate your delivery of a “live” demo in front of a client. IBMers have the flexibility to define a hypothetical client, the challenges the client has, and the goals they aspire to achieve. Your recording must be a demonstration that pitches the value of this solution by using the environments and techniques that are described in the demonstration guide. Specific criteria that must be demonstrated as part of the Stand and Deliver recordings are provided within the documentation that accompanies the Level 3 course in Your Learning.

Keep the demonstration guide and ITZ environment active

Business Partners, keep the demonstration guide and ITZ environment active while you take the quiz.

IBM technical sellers, keep the demonstration guide and ITZ environment active until you complete your Stand and Deliver.

Support

Think something is down? Check the applicable status pages for any known issues like a site or service not available:

For issues with provisioning the ITZ environment for this lab (for example, a failed reservation request due to insufficient quota capacity) open a ticket with ITZ support:

For issues related to specific steps found in the demonstration guide after the ITZ environment is provisioned, contact the authors:

Business Partners should use the IBM Training live Chat Support service or other support methods that are found on the IBM Training portal here.

Using the demonstration guide

Use these helpful tips to take full advantage of the IBM watsonx Assistant for Z for Technical Sales Level 3 Demonstration Guide.

Printing the demonstration guide

Printed or saved copies can be out of date

The IBM watsonx Assistant for Z for Technical Sales Level 3 Demonstration Guide changes regularly to match the IBM watsonx Assistant for Z offering and associated ITZ environment. Printed or saved copies of the demonstration guide can become out-of-date quickly and result in failed steps.

A ready-to-print PDF version of the IBM watsonx Assistant for Z for Technical Sales Level 3 Demonstration Guide is here.

Viewing images

Images in the demonstration guide can be enlarged by clicking on the image. Press the Esc key or click the X to dismiss the enlarged image.

Image highlighting

In some images, the following styles of highlighting are used:

  • Solid highlight box: This style of box highlights where to click, enter, or select an item.

  • Dash highlight box: This style of box highlights one of two things: the path to follow to get to a specific location in the user interface, or areas to explore on your own.

Copying commands and prompts

Copying and pasting commands and prompts from this demonstration guide is easy and can eliminate typographical errors.

Click the highlighted copy icon and then use your operating system's paste function. For example, Ctrl+V, or right-click and select Paste.

Acronyms and terminology

IBM employees, and the tech industry in general, enjoy using acronyms. In the demonstration guide, most acronyms will appear with a dashed underline. Hover over the acronym to learn its meaning. A question mark () icon will first appear and after a second the tool tip with the acronym's meaning is displayed. Try it here: LPAR.

The Demonstration Guide table of contents

This Demonstration Guide uses a responsive browser-based interface to ensure a pages are usable on various devices with different screen sizes. The Demonstration Guide table of contents may be displayed as highlighted in the green dashed box in this image:

However, if the browser window is sized smaller, the table of contents can be accessed by clicking the main menu icon ():

Click the main menu icon () to expand the table of contents.