Re: Massive Client Access Install

Yeah, but yours is work related; mine from being a stupid kid.

Anyway, got one of the installation images set up with the latest service pack. Since this is really an update, even though it's new hardware, I think I should be able to copy the \private folder from the existing (soon to be defunct) PC to our network server and, after CA is installed, replace the PC's \private folder with the saved version. Going to run a test today or tomorrow just to be sure that boat floats.

* Jerry C. Adams
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Paul Nelson wrote:

Ditto. We're both digitally challenged. :-))

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:59 AM
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Subject: Re: Massive Client Access Install

Paul,

Thanks. After reading your message this morning, I did additional searches on my handout images (no luck) and the Redbooks. I found the one you bookmarked below, and am in the process of reading Chapter 2 now.

Must have fat fingered the search earlier. I can spel ;-) , just can't type.

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Paul Nelson wrote:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246939.pdf

Chapter 2

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Carole Miner gave a session on this very thing a few years ago at COMMON. I tried to find my handout or locate a manual but, alas, have so far been unsuccessful.
The main thing that I remember about Carole's session was that it "silently" updated the PC whenever a new service pack was installed, or PTF's for CA were installed in the QIBM whatever folder in the IFS. Slacker that I am, I never got around to implementing that process.
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Paul Nelson wrote:

I forget where it is now, but in a Redbook regarding CA, there is a

section

about creating a silent install/custom install image. What you

essentially

do is tell the program to record your answers about the installation, and
then save those in something akin to a script. I did this a few years ago
and saved it onto a CD that got mastered onto 30 other CD's along with a
little .bat file.

All the user had to do was to insert the CD into his PC, start a dos

prompt,

and issue the command to run the batch file. The script rebooted the PC

at

the end of the install routine. It took about 5 minutes per PC from start

to

finish.

We updated/installed 300 PC's in 20 locations in one day. The manager at
each location was responsible for performing the installs.

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:38 PM
To: Midrange-L
Subject: Massive Client Access Install

By massive I mean that there are going to be about 30-40 PC's purchased and installed from ground zero. The questions du jour relate to Client Access.

I think we can save the \Program Files\ibm\client access\emulator\private folder to a network drive (defining each user uniquely, of course) and just copy that back onto the PC once C/A is installed. That should keep all of the user's session Ids, printer emulations, keyboard mappings and colors, etc. If that is erroneous, I would certainly like to know.

The bigger question right now, though, is: Is there an easy way to see what each user currently has selected for other stuff, such as ODBC. I know I can go into "Selective Setup" off of the iSeries Access for Windows option in the PC's Start menu, but I have been looking for either a report (don't I wish!) or an .ini or such file. I've found a few files of that nature but none that appears to contain that stuff.

It would seem apparent that I will have to do a full blown re-install rather than just copy some folders because of the entries in the Windows Registry, including re-defining the connection to the production machine. But any simple and easy to understand short cuts would be appreciated because I think their going to farm this PC set-up out to a couple of PC geeks who look cross-eyed at me when I say AS/400, iSeries, System i, or anything that doesn't sound like "PC".

Thanks.