CA Mainframe VM Product Manager - 1.2 : Releasing Products to Users

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Make Files Public

The product deployment procedure copies all public files to the minidisk defined by the PUBLIC or ALTPUBLIC tag on the VMSERVER NAMES file entry (usually the VMANAGER 193 minidisk). You have the option of leaving them there or copying them to a public minidisk that you specify.

Communicating with Products

VM end users interact with most product service virtual machines through communication command modules. These command modules are deployed with a filename which matches the server virtual machine user ID with which they communicate. They are deployed to the minidisk defined by the PUBLIC or ALTPUBLIC tag in the VMSERVER NAMES file entry (usually the VMANAGER 193 minidisk).

When you test the products, you must link and access the appropriate public disk in order to use the communication modules corresponding to the release of the server. The system administrator or tape librarian user ID directory entries created by the VMALLOC procedure contain the required link statements.

Copying Public Files to a Minidisk You Specify

You can choose to copy files from the designated public disk where they are initially deployed to the system public disk (usually the MAINT 19E minidisk).

If you manually copy these files, follow your installation procedures to resave the CMS saved segment, because it contains File Status Table entries for the 19E disk.

Loading Help Files

Each product has help files that you may load to your HELP minidisk or to a minidisk or Shared File System directory of your choice.

These instructions assume that you have installed the program product materials as described in the appropriate CA VM product installation guide, and are logged on to the CA Mainframe VM Product Manager administration user ID.

  1. Define the appropriate HELP disk on the HELP tag in the VMSERVER NAMES file entry for the HELP files you want to deploy. The supplied default value for the CA Mainframe VM Product Manager is defined in the VMSERVER NAMES file entry for VMANAGER as a comment. Change the value to define a minidisk by entering a userid and a minidisk address, or define an SFS directory by entering the fully qualified directory name. The supplied default value for the HELP tag in each product is VMANAGER HELP. This indirect tag reference results in loading HELP for every product to the same minidisk or directory.
  2. Issue this command to deploy the HELP files for a deployed product release:

    VMDEPLOY name HELP
    
    • name
      Specifies the product user ID for the HELP files being deployed.
    • HELP
      Specifies that code is being deployed to the HELP disk as defined in the VMSERVER NAMES file.

When you have loaded these files to your system, make them available to your users by adding them to your HELP facility. For more information about the HELP facility, refer to the appropriate IBM documentation.