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Maintain Your Environments Using CA CSM

You can use CA CSM to design, plan, and manage your mainframe environments.

You can do this using the following techniques:

• Deploy CA Technologies products using CA CSM.
• Deploy any nonexecutable files, such as readme, and data files, using the custom data set feature of CA CSM.
• Create an inventory matrix or map of all your systems and CA Technologies products that are in your mainframe environment. This will give you a map of systems that need to have products deployed to them.
• Categorize each system type into non-sysplex, sysplex, monoplex, shared DASD cluster, or staging system using your inventory matrix or map.
• Add to CA CSM System Registry only those systems in your environment that are your driving systems and those target systems that will receive the deployment.
• Use the validate procedure of the System Registry to define a system. This procedure will detect whether the system is a non-sysplex, monoplex or sysplex system.
• Maintain your system on a regular basis, except for hot fixes.
• During the methodology assignment in the deployment, use the Create Only feature when you deploy your products to environmental test systems, sandbox systems, staging systems, or products systems.

Business Value:

These procedures enable you to easily and accurately manage the deployment of your CA Technologies products with fewer manual steps and chances for errors. In addition, the manager responsible for your mainframe systems can use CA CSM to flexibly create and manage a mainframe system plan that scales to the organization environment.

More Information:

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