One or more product sets, as described in this topic, will be appropriate for your installation. Any of these product sets can be merged with any other, as required by your business needs. (The result of merging two product sets is considered to be a single product set.) Any product set described in this topic can also be split into two or more product sets, if this is what is needed to meet your installation's requirements. Product sets can be built at the same time or different times, and migrated together or separately to different images as your business requires.

Each installation's requirements usually lead to a unique number of product sets and to unique content in each set. Remember that your objective in choosing the number and composition of product sets is to control workload while providing the amount of flexibility you need to manage your software easily. If you have either too many or too few product sets, you will do more work during some phase of installation or migration, and your system software will be harder to manage.