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Methodologies

You can create, maintain, edit, and delete methodologies from a deployment.

A methodology has the following attributes:

• A single data set name mask that is used to control what target libraries are to be called on the target systems and where these deployments will go.

  z/OS data sets

  z/OS data sets use a data set name mask. The data set name mask is a valid data set name comprised of constants and symbolic qualifiers.

  The minimum methodology data consists of a data set mask and a target action. The symbolics in the data set mask are either symbolics defined by CA CSM or z/OS system symbolics.

• Deployment Style information is used to create only, create or update, or replace a methodology.

  Create Only

  Use Create Only when you are creating a new methodology that does not have any target libraries already associated with a deployment.

  Create or Update

  Use Create or Update to:

  • Create new data sets and/or files in a UNIX directory.
  • Replace existing sequential data sets or files in a UNIX directory.
  • For partitioned data sets, replace existing members, add new member without deletion of members that are not replaced.

  Note: Using Create or Update would not cause the deployment to fail due to data set name conflicts.

  Replace

  Use Replace to delete any existing data sets associated with a deployment before creating new data sets.

  The system first locks all target data sets and then deletes them. If any data set is used by another user or application, the data set cannot be deleted, and the whole deployment fails. In this case, no data sets are deleted.