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A context is an area of application where Delivery Manager may be useful.
Contexts are a means of classifying Actions in Delivery Manager. The functionality offered by Delivery Manager in a given context is defined by the Actions that it offers in that context.
Context
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Description
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Prepare *
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Operations performed during development and in preparation of an application release.
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Release *
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Operations that consist of making application deliverables available to target machines.
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Merge *
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Operations that consist of applying knowledge about components on a target machine to adapt deliverables to deployment on that particular machine.
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Deploy *
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Operations that consist of actually implementing released, and possibly merged, deliverables on a target machine.
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USoft routines
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Operations that consist of performing a routine that is available as part of the functionality of a USoft tool (USoft Definer, Windows Designer, Web Designer, Service Definer).
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Utilities
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Non-USoft-specific, general operations, in particular file system operations.
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Data management
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Operations that consist of importing, exporting, clearing, comparing and transforming data sets other than in the context of releasing, merging or deploying those data.
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* For some of these contexts, there is a natural sequence of events in which operations follow each other in time:
See Also
Result types
Delivery Manager actions by name
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