Disable or Remove Existing Product Release Instances of a Digital Product Scenario

The goal of this scenario is to completely or partly disable or remove Actual Product Instances of a Digital Product. The deployment design (which is part of the Product Release) should provide information on the active Product Release that needs to be removed or undeployed, whereas the Operate value stream has the actual information on which related Actual Product Instances are to be disabled or removed.

Removing a Digital Product might require changes to the Product Design, and, in some cases, customer data may have to be retained for a while and made available for the customer to view. Some of the components of the Digital Product can be removed, but new components may also be installed or deployed.