Re: Default directory

Just my CDN$0.02, not the opinion of my employer, etc., etc...

The default install works exactly as intended, the product and config is
in the protected directories and needs an administrator to modify it yet
the product can be run by a user.

If you don't have admin authority then what you can do is to install in
your user space. With RDP 8.5 if you look in the install image you see a
disk1 folder containing launchpad.exe, This will run the normal install
for all users. However if you look into disk1/InstallerImage_win32 you
will find a userinst.exe. Running this should start a user-level install
under your userid's home directory. The main difference that you will see
is that there will be a "My Installation Manager" entry in the Start menu.
I have not asked to see if this is a "supported" configuration or not
though...

Mike


Mike Hockings, M.Eng., P.Eng.
IBM Rational Developer for System z and Power Systems Software Technical
Support
IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory
hockings@xxxxxxxxxx
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From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 2012-09-10 11:43
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Default directory
Sent by: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



On 9/10/2012 10:09 AM, Terry Hertel wrote:

When I installed 8.0 I questioned Rational support about where to
install it. They have instructed me to use the defaults. If the
default directory doesn't work correctly, shouldn't IBM change the
default?

Either that or modify the way it works so it doesn't need to write to the
install location.

david