Environment
8.7 to 9.6
Delivery Methods
When using the Management Gateway, only Policy-based Delivery Methods can be used. Such Delivery Methods do not allow for Pre-staging a file but always run the primary file of the Distribution Package.
Workaround
In order to prestage a Distribution Package create a copy of the Distribution Package and move the current Primary File to be an additional file and replace the Primary File with a blank batch file. Even though the Primary File will always run, it now does not matter because a blank batch will of course do nothing and will always run successfully.
Note:
This is also very useful to prestage files in environments where Multicast is either not desired or not functional.