Re: CA Express V5R1 to V5R2 upgrade messed up

[Neil Palmer <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phillip,

The comment from Lee H (and many pthers) on this page makes me wary:
http://download.com.com/3302-2094-881470.html?tag=mta






15-Jun-2002 12:22:35 PM






"This is a discontinued program"
Go to search.microsoft.com and search on "regclean". You'll get a link
that says, "RegClean Utility Is No Longer Available". If you click on it,
you'll get "no web page matching your request". Even the page to tell you
that Microsoft has discontinued this product no longer exists. Note the
release date of this program in CNet: January 5, 1998. Geesh, don't they
ever expire old programs. Since this release, Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000,
and XP have been released. This is an OLD and **DEFUNCT** utility. Just
because CNet doesn't cleanup their own listings doesn't mean that it
showing here means it has any value.





...Neil





Philipp Rusch <Philipp.Rusch@rusch-edv.de>

2002/12/07 09:18
Please respond to midrange-l


        To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
        cc:
        Subject:        Re: CA Express V5R1 to V5R2 upgrade messed up


Hello Neil,

you could also try to "clean" the registry of "old" keys by using the tool
Regclean from Microsoft. Latest version I have is 4.1 and is usually my
first try,
if an "uninstall" did not clean up everything properly.
You'll have to run it more than once until it doesn't find any more
"errors to fix",
then do a restart.

Regards from Germany, Philipp Rusch

Neil Palmer schrieb:

> The system that Check Service Level on my PC connects to updated from
V5R1
> to V5R2.
> Next time the check ran I clicked to update to V5R2.  This failed part
way
> and wouldn't restart through Check Service Level, so I ran the SETUP.EXE
> from
\\myiseries.mycompany.com\qibm\ProdData\Access\Windows\Install\Image
>
> That failed again part way through, so I had to start it again.
>
> When I try to select the install method (Basic, PC5250, Custom, All) I
got
> the following message:
>
> The following components cannot be installed.
>  Reason:  IBM Personal Communications already installed
>         5250 Display and Printer Emulator
>
> Went ahead and upgraded, all appeaed to be OK except that trying to open
> PC5250 SSL sessions would crash on my W2K Pro (Service Pack 3) PC with
one
> of those really useful messages:
> PCSCM.EXE - Application Error
> The instruction at "0x74c1c3b3" referenced memory at "0x00000000".  The
> memory could not be "read".
>
> So I uninstalled ALL of Client Access (iSeries Access), rebooted, and
> tried again.  Still get:
>
> The following components cannot be installed.
>  Reason:  IBM Personal Communications already installed
>         5250 Display and Printer Emulator
>
> Now there's no mention of PCOMM or Client Access in Add/Remove Programs
or
> anywhere else.  I've deleted any Client Access stuff I could see in
places
> like Program Files/IBM/Client Access and in Documents and Settings/All
> Users.  I've gone through the Registry and blown away all references I
> could see to Personal Communications, PCOMM, Client Access, PC5250,
> rebooted, and tried again.  STILL get the:
>
> The following components cannot be installed.
>  Reason:  IBM Personal Communications already installed
>         5250 Display and Printer Emulator
>
> when running SETUP.EXE to reinstall iSeries Access.
>
> Does ANYONE have a clue just WHAT this install program is checking that
> causes it to tell me I have IBM Personal Communications installed ?
> It has NEVER been installed on this PC - only the PC5250 code that came
> with previous versions of Client Access.
>
> ...Neil