Overview

DTS is a flexible service in terms of how to configure the different components in your network. Before you configure your DTS network, you should understand the role that each component plays. The central component of DTS, the Data Transport manager, operates as a distributed server. Applications connect to the Data Transfer manager to perform or schedule data transfers. Any computer that involves the transfer of actual data must have the DTS agent installed.

In CA ITCM, communications, auditing, tracing, event management, compression, encryption, and so on are handled by common components in the Common Application Framework (CAF). For an overview, see the Implementation Guide.

Note: Previous releases of DTS that are upgraded to Unicenter DSM r11.1 will not integrate with CA Common Services. This means that any DTS advanced network configuration set up with a previous version of CA Common Services will not be available in r11.1. If, however, a previous release is upgraded to Unicenter or CA ITCM [assign the value for rn in your book], this does not apply, that is, the existing network configuration is available.

Note: Installing CA ITCM r12 on top of CCS r3.0 is successful; however, any DTS data that has been configured in CCS will no longer be available.