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How to Deploy a Product

The Software Deployment Service (SDS) facilitates the deployment of mainframe products from the software inventory of the driving system to the target system, including 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.

Follow these steps:

1. Set up the system registry:
   1. Determine the systems you have at your enterprise.
   2. Set up remote credentials for those systems.
   3. Set up the target systems (Non-Sysplex, Sysplex or Monoplex, Shared DASD Cluster, and Staging), and validate them.
   4. Add FTP information, including data destination information, to each system registry entry.
2. Set up methodologies.
3. Create the deployment, which includes completing each step in the New Deployment wizard.

   After creating the deployment, you can save it and change it later by adding and editing systems, products, custom data sets, and methodologies, or you can deploy directly from the wizard.

   Note: If you must deploy other products to the previously defined systems using the same methodologies, you must create a separate deployment.

4. Deploy the product, which includes taking a snapshot, transmitting to target, and deploying (unpacking) to your mainframe environment.

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