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How to Acquire a Product

The Product Acquisition Service (PAS) facilitates the acquisition of mainframe products and the service for those products, such as program temporary fixes (PTFs). The PAS retrieves information about products to which your site is entitled and records these entitlements in a software inventory maintained on your driving system.

You can use the PAS component of CA MSM to acquire a CA Technologies product.

Follow these steps:

1. Set up a CA Support Online account.

   To use CA MSM to acquire or download a product, you must have a CA Support Online account. If you do not have an account, you can create one on the CA Support Online website.

2. Determine the CA MSM URL for your site.

   To access CA MSM, you require its URL. You can get the URL from your site's CA MSM administrator and log in using your z/OS credentials. When you log in for the first time, you are prompted to create a CA MSM account with your credentials for the CA Support Online website. This account enables you to download product packages.

3. Log in to CA MSM and go to the Software Catalog page to locate the product that you want to manage.

   After you log in to CA MSM, you can see the products to which your organization is entitled on the Software Catalog tab.

   If you cannot find the product you want to acquire, update the catalog. CA MSM refreshes the catalog through the CA Support Online website using the site IDs associated with your credentials for the CA Support Online website.

4. Download the product installation packages.

   After you find your product in the catalog, you can download the product installation packages.

   CA MSM downloads (acquires) the packages (including any maintenance packages) from the CA FTP site.

After the acquisition process completes, the product is ready for you to install or maintain.