A context is an area of application where Delivery Manager may be useful.
Contexts are one way of classifying Actions. This classification is visible in the Actions tab of the Delivery Manager catalog. It may change between USoft patches. You cannot alter this classification.
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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See Also
Result types
Delivery Manager actions by name
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