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How to Install Your Product Using a Pax File

As a system programmer, your responsibilities include installing products on your mainframe system. With this option, you acquire a product pax file from http://ca.com/support.

You perform the following tasks to install a product with a pax file:

This illustration shows the process of installing a product.

  1. Allocate and mount the file system.
  2. Acquire the product pax files.
  3. Create a product directory from the pax file.
  4. Copy the installation files to z/OS data sets.
  5. Prepare the SMP/E environment for a pax installation.
  6. Run the installation jobs for a pax installation.
  7. (Optional) Clean up the USS directory .
  8. Apply preventive maintenance.