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How to Deploy a Product

The Software Deployment Service (SDS) facilitates the mainframe product deployment from the software inventory of the driving system to the target system. This facilitation includes deploying installed products that are policy-driven with a set of appropriate transport mechanisms across a known topology.

You can use the SDS component of CA MSM to deploy a CA Technologies product that you have already acquired and installed.

You perform the following high-level tasks to deploy your products using CA MSM:

1. (Optional) Set up methodologies.

   Note: You can also set up methodologies when creating a deployment.

2. Create the deployment.
3. (Optional) Save the deployment for editing and deploying later.
4. (Optional) Change the deployment: Add and edit systems, products, custom data sets, and methodologies.
5. Deploy:
   1. Take a snapshot.
   2. Transmit to target.
   3. Deploy (unpack) to mainframe environment.
6. (Optional) Delete the deployment.

After the deployment process completes, the product is ready for you to configure. Sometimes there are other steps to perform manually outside of CA MSM before beginning the configuration process.