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How the Deployment Process Works

The Software Deployment Service (SDS) facilitates the mainframe product deployment from the software inventory of the driving system to the target system. This facilitation includes deploying installed products that are policy-driven with a set of appropriate transport mechanisms across a known topology.

Before you can deploy a product, complete the following tasks:

• Acquire and install the product (including setting up SMP/E environments)
• Set up the target systems and remote credentials in the system registry

Note: If you do not set up remote credentials for target systems, CA CSM prompts you to define remote credentials before it performs actions that require access to the systems.

You perform the following high-level tasks to deploy your products using CA CSM:

1. (Optional) Set up methodologies.

   Note: You can also set up methodologies when creating a deployment.

2. Create the deployment.
3. (Optional) Save the deployment for editing and deploying later.
4. (Optional) Change the deployment: Add and edit systems, products, custom data sets, and methodologies.
5. Deploy:
   1. Take a snapshot.
   2. Transmit to target.
   3. Deploy (unpack) to mainframe environment.
6. (Optional) Delete the deployment.