Re: installing v6

My reccos: 

Take the DVD and copy it to a shared folder. Do not use CDs. By the time
you get to insert the 3rd CD you have alread invested 2 or 3 hours into the
process, and thats where it usually fails. 

Do not install all the optionals - even though you are tempted to. EGL and
other stuff can wait. These can be installed later. Do install the Iseries
components and test environment. 

If you are using Windows have the users re-start the PC completely -- not
just turn their spiffy 17 inch flat panel on and off. 

Ensure that at least 10GB of disk space is available. This is very
important - The DVD has about 3.5GB of compressed data on it and the
patches that are downloaded are just as "thin". 

Ohh real important -- avoid installing into the C:\Program files\IBM ... 
Eclipse runs out of directory string variable space very quickly and simply
hangs. 
Install off the root into C:\wbsp or C:\rational. Keep the directory paths
as short as possible. This helps later when creating web-services from
ISeries applications and other JSP applications.

If you plan to share projects I would reccomend that all the users install
into a similar directory structure to prevent refactoring issues. 

Avoid having the user workspace as a sub-folder within the installation
folder. That too should be off the root folder. This is just in case you
need to wipe the entire installation and start again. 

I took a snapshot of a clean insatall and copied it to a USB attached
sandisk. I can use this later if I need to without having to go through the
patch download process again. 

Hope this helps.


Regards
Faizulla Khan
Grand Circle Travels









Original Message:
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From: David Foxwell david.foxwell@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:52:48 +0100
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] installing v6


This is deadly serious.
It is incredible the number of threads concerning installation problems.

I have also been campaiging for an upgrade from V5.1. As I am the only user
I realize that this is just not possible.
I have just been given the go ahead to train the rest of the team and teach
them all I know. When we are all operationnal together, the argument for
upgrading will have more weight.

I am afraid that these apparent nightmares in the installation process will
put an end to the use of WDSc in our company. We are currently about 20
developers. It's no easy decision to install WDSc on each PC. From the
administrator's point of view, why waste all that time when PDM works ?

What can we do to ensure (when the time comes ) that the thing installs
correctly?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Fritz" <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 7:11 PM
Subject: [WDSCI-L] installing v6

After campaigning vigorously for a couple of years I finally got
management to accept the idea of giving WDSCI to all the programmers.
The install was a nightmare.  It was impossible to install from the cds,
even in safe mode.  It was impossible to install from disc images in the
IFS.  It was impossible to install from disc images on the local hard
drive. The only thing that worked was disc images on a portable USB hard
drive.  Needless to say it didn't make a very good impression on anyone.
It was about 3 months ago and I can't remember the specific error--just
like an end user <g>--but it failed with the same one for everybody in
each of the modes that didn't work.