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Review Installation Prerequisites

Before you start installing CA CSM, perform the following actions:

1. Confirm that you have all prerequisite authorizations using the Prerequisite Validator utility.
2. Confirm that you use a userid with UID(0) or SUPERUSER authority.
3. Review disk space requirements.
   • Hierarchical File System (HFS) or zSeries File System (zFS) space = 2500 cylinders
   • A TSO region = 143360 KB (at minimum)
   • z/OS space = 2400 cylinders
   • DASD space = 100 tracks
   • For SDS, each target system needs 500 cylinders of 3390, except CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS, which needs 1500 cylinders
4. Review software requirements:
   • CA software — Your system must have CA Common Services for z/OS Release 14.1, or Version 14.0.
   • IBM software — Your system must satisfy the following requirements:
     • The latest version of z/OS or the last previous version
     • TCP/IP protocol suite of z/OS Communications Server, with the FTP.DATA data set configured with the JESINTERFACELEVEL 2 statement
     • SMP/E V3R5 at least
     • IBM 64-bit Java SDK 1.7 for z/OS, we recommend that you use SR5
   • PC software — The computer that is used to access CA CSM must have a web browser with access to your mainframe. CA CSM was tested with the following browsers:
     • Mozilla Firefox 28
     • Google Chrome 33
     • Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 (Page Default document mode only)
     • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (document mode 5 or Edge document mode only)

       Note: For more information about document mode, see Microsoft Internet Explorer user documentation.

5. Review web access requirements to the following websites:
   • supportservices.ca.com
   • ftp.ca.com
   • ftpca.ca.com
   • scftpd.ca.com
   • ftpdownloads.ca.com
   • supportftp.ca.com
   • sdownloads.ca.com
6. Customize the following z/OS OMVS values:
   • MAXASSIZE(2147483647)
   • MAXCPUTIME(20000)
   • MAXFILEPROC(10000)
   • MAXTHREADS(1000)
   • MAXTHREADTASKS(1000)
7. Set up security on the following systems:
   • The CA CSM application server
   • Target systems
8. (For CA ACF2 for z/OS users only) Define MUSASS permission for users who start CA CSM.
9. Configure the home directory for address space ACIDs.

Note: For more information, see the Site Preparation Guide.