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Simon, Well said... Only question I have is whether or not LODRUN is an effective way to do a RSTLICPGM. Other than that, I consider the matter to be settled, in my mind anyway. BTW, I meant to correct a prior goof on a post. I *actually* looked at SV/SM (SystemView SystemManager) and NOT MGTC (Management Central). I, too, have *heard* MGTC includes these capabilities, but haven't ever looked at it. jt | -----Original Message----- | From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com | [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Simon Coulter | Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 7:02 PM | To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com | Subject: Installation Programs (was: CD Burning Software?) | | | | Hello All, | | One thing to remember when reading IBM documentation that comes from the | developers is that often they write it from their perspective (i.e., | building an IBM product). For instance, the comment in the "CD-ROM | Premastering on iSeries" white paper regarding QINSTAPP being | owned by QSYS | is a requirement for IBM software but not a requirement of | QINSTAPP per se. | (Although that in itself is peculiar since most IBM software uses | RSTLICPGM | rather than LODRUN.) | | IIRC QINSTAPP must be owned by a profile that exists on the target system | at the time of the installation and since it is the first user program to | run during a LODRUN installation it is a bit difficult to have it owned by | any profile other than an IBM one. | | Being owned by QSYS confers no advantage with authority unless the program | also adopts the owner's authority and that is certainly not a requirement | for QINSTAPP. Besides, most products request QSECOFR do the installation | to avoid authority issues so adopting authority is moot. | | Besides, LODRUN was IMNSHO a kludge (provided in VRM220) to make it easy | for vendors to create installation programs. Its purpose was to provide a | standard way of installing a product without requiring a vendor to build a | real LPP which already has a standard installation process in RSTLICPGM -- | even though you can use LODRUN to invoke RSTLICPGM under the covers. | | However, the right way to install a product is to build it as a Licenced | Program Product using the Software Product APIs. Then you can use | RSTLICPGM to install it. That is a far more standard way of installing | software than LODRUN. It also supports renaming libraries, multiple | languages, pre- and post-installation exit programs, provides support for | PTFs, and is far more flexible than LODRUN. Another advantage is that you | can use IBM's licence management (presuming that it fits your | pricing/marketing model) and your products appear in the list of installed | programs using DSPSFWRSC and WRKLICINF. | | IBM provide SystemView SystemManager which builds LPPs. I believe part of | Management Central does this too. A number of vendors also offer tools to | build LPPs using the Software Product APIs but I looked at them | and most of | them are seriously lacking so I wrote my own. It might become another | product in its own right but at the moment it is 'internal use only' (You | can take the programmer out of IBM but you can't take IBM out of the | programmer :) | | Regards, | Simon Coulter. | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | FlyByNight Software AS/400 Technical Specialists | http://www.flybynight.com.au/ | | Phone: +61 3 9419 0175 Mobile: +61 0411 091 400 /"\ | Fax: +61 3 9419 0175 mailto: shc@flybynight.com.au \ / | X | ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail / \ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | | _______________________________________________ | This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) | mailing list | To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com | To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, | visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l | or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com | Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives | at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. |
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