Re: Creating a Licensed Program

[Walt Fles <wfles@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,
I was looking into that as well, using crtsavf, savlib,  and then rstlib.

Might work better for me as well, thanks!

Walt Fles


James H H Lampert wrote:

> > I am a newbie to AS400 and am developing  a package that Id like to have
> > installed using the "NORMAL" ( native ) commands on the AS400.
> >    
>
> Here at Touchtone, we've never bothered with anything IBM has provided for
> product packaging. We find it simpler just create a save file of the
> relevant library. For QuestView, we have an installer (written in CL) that
> does a few more things (like preserving anything the user might have put
> into the product library if he or she is upgrading from a previous
> release, and moving that previous release into a backup library, and
> warning the user if either lack of authority or some security system value
> will block a successful installation), but that installer, along with the
> "library-image" save file, simply resides in another save file. Once you
> have a save file, you can then use that save file to generate tapes, or
> you can FTP it to a PC, ZIP it, and either email it or make it available
> for download.
>
> --
> JHHL
>
>
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