How You Use CA CSM

From the web-based interface, you can perform the following tasks:

Specify user credentials to log in to the CA Support Online website. From the website, you can update the software inventory with entitled CA Technologies mainframe products.
Download products, associated product files, and product maintenance.
Install products.
Apply maintenance to installed products.
Accept installed maintenance.
Back out maintenance.
Migrate existing SMP/E environments to the inventory database.
Add installation and maintenance packages that are not downloaded using CA CSM.
Manage SMP/E environments (for example, remove an SMP/E environments).
Create your remote credentials.
Create system registry entries for non-sysplex, sysplex, shared DASD clusters, or staging systems.
Set data destinations for these systems.
Set FTP locations for these systems.
Create, maintain, or delete a deployment for products.
- Add or remove systems.
- Add or remove products.
- Add, edit, or remove custom data sets.
- Add, edit, or delete methodologies.
Create, build, delete, and implement configurations.
View status of requested tasks.
View the execution details of requested tasks.

Note: For more information about the web-based interface, see the online help.