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Acquire a New Product

Acquisition allows you to download products and product maintenance from the CA Support Online website at http://ca.com/support to a USS directory structure on your system. The products to which your site is entitled and the releases available are displayed in the Available Products section on the Products page.

You perform the following high-level tasks to acquire a product using CA CSM:

  1. Set up a CA Support Online account at http://ca.com/support.

    To use CA CSM to acquire or download a product, you must have a CA Support Online account. If you do not have an account, create one on http://ca.com/support.

  2. Determine the CA CSM URL for your site.

    To access CA CSM, you require its URL. You can get the URL from your site CA CSM administrator and log in using your z/OS credentials. When you log in for the first time, you are prompted to create a CA CSM account with your credentials that you use to access http://ca.com/support. This account enables you to download product packages.

  3. Log in to CA CSM and go to the Products page to locate the product that you want to acquire.

    After you log in to CA CSM, you can see the products to which your organization is entitled on the Products tab.

    If you cannot find the product that you want to acquire, update the product list. CA CSM refreshes the product list through http://ca.com/support using the site IDs associated with your credentials.

  4. Download the product installation packages.

    After you find your product in the product list, you can download the product installation packages. To do so, use the Update Product Release action.

    CA CSM downloads (acquires) the packages (including any maintenance packages) from the CA Support Online website.

After the acquisition process completes, the product is ready for you to install or apply maintenance.