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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. Then it records these entitlements in a software inventory that is maintained on your driving system.
You can use the PAS component of CA MSM to acquire a CA Technologies product.
You perform the following high-level tasks to acquire a product using CA MSM:
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.
To access CA MSM, you require its URL. You can get the URL from your site 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.
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 that 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.
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.
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