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Hide a Product from the Product List

If you do not need a product, release, or gen level, you can hide it from the product list and can remove associated packages from your system. Removing the packages lets you free up DASD space on your system.

Note: You can hide a product, release, or gen level for the CA vendor only. For any other vendor, you can only delete a product, release, or gen level.

Hiding a product, a release, or a gen level does not remove an entry from the product list. You can restore its visibility at any time.

Hiding a product, release, or gen level removes packages from the product list. Removing the packages does not affect the associated products or maintenance installed in SMP/E environments, or the SMP/E environments themselves.

CA CSM excludes hidden products, releases, and gen levels from processing when updating the product list. No packages are downloaded for hidden products, releases, and gen levels.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Products tab, and locate the product, product release, or the product gen level that you want to hide from the tree.
2. Right-click the product, product release, or the product gen level, and select Clean Up and Hide.

   You are prompted to confirm the action.

3. Click OK.

   A dialog that shows the progress of the task opens. When the task completes, you can click Show Results on the Progress tab to close this dialog. The task output browser opens and you can view the action details. Click Close to close the task output browser.

   Note: While a task is in progress, you can perform other work. You can click Hide to exit the dialog and view the task status later on the Tasks tab.

   The product, product release, or gen level is hidden from the product list. The associated packages are deleted from the system.