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Initial VM Product Installation

CA VM products managed by CA Mainframe VM Product Manager are delivered in VMSES/E format. Both new product versions and any subsequent corrective or preventive service are available on a physical tape or in a downloadable electronic envelope file. A series of standard VMSES/E commands populate a set of minidisks or Shared File System directories with product materials from an installation tape or tape image. This set of disk space is unique to one product and only one version of that product.

Note: The VMSES/E commands for installation of product materials are described, in depth, by the IBM publication VMSES/E Introduction and Reference. Of particular interest are the chapters:

• Introducing the VMFINS EXEC
• Using the VMFINS EXEC
• Installing Products with VMFINS

An Installation Guide is available for each product installation. The guide provides the detailed steps you follow to load the product materials. Here is an overview of the standard installation steps common to all products:

• Issue the VMFINS INSTALL command with the INFO operand to create a list of the products on the installation tape. Use this VMFINS PRODLIST file to verify the contents and identify the Product Parameter Files which were loaded.
• Issue the VMFINS INSTALL command with the PLAN option to produce a PLANINFO file documenting the product resource requirements for needed user IDs and disk space.
• Allocate the user IDs and disk space to hold the product materials. A separate user ID is allocated for each version of a specific product. That ID owns disk space which will be loaded from the tape or tape image file. The process for allocating VM resources is described in the section "Product Resource Allocation".
• Issue the VMFINS INSTALL command with the ADD option to populate the product materials disk space.

At the end of these steps, disk space owned by a newly defined user ID is populated with the product materials from the distribution media. The individual minidisks or Shared File System directories in this collection are identified by a definition character string from the VMSES/E Product Parameter File. The various types of disk space are defined in the following sections.