Just some random-ish mumbling that may or may not be 100% correct and are
at best just my opinion FWIW ...
Run-As-Administrator is not some sort of snake-oil curative, really. If
your config is so messed that R-A-A is a "fix" then maybe you need to
consider installing things as a user so that there is no authority issues.
Yes, Windows' way of protecting programs from malicious software is, um,
unusual. So, you will find odd things when the UAC is turned up when as a
normal user you modify an eclipse.ini, save it then look at it and it is
unchanged (presumably the same for shortcuts). This is because, as I
understand it anyway, Windows will write the change but to some shadow
directory structure and leaves the original file unchanged. This same
behaviour leads to nodlocked licenses if you apply an Activation Kit with
the UAC turned down so that you can start IM without error from the RDI
menu. So you get no warning that it is not elevated but it can't change
files in C:\ProgramData\*, just add them...
So, you want to modify a shortcut, copy-paste it to someplace write-abe
(your desktop?) then make the change. Same with the eclipse.ini, copy it
to your desktop, change it then copy it back and click through the dialogs
to do the replace thing.
If you run RDI as admin all the time that means that it and all those
plugins that you have installed from wherever have the ability to make
whatever change it wants on your machine without asking - think about where
that could lead ...
The bottom line is that you should only use admin auth to make changes to
your machine, want to add a plugin to RDI, start it as admin, add the
plugin then stop it and restart normally. On Windows always start IM from
the Start menu so that it is properly elevated.
Feel free to ignore all this though - it is the internet and you can't
trust it
Mike Hockings, M.Eng., P.Eng.
DevOps for Enterprise
IBM Developer for z Systems and Power Systems Software Technical Support
IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory
hockings@xxxxxxxxxx
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From: Arco Simonse <arco400@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2019/02/13 09:22
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Is it possible to change the language settings
for iSphere?
Sent by: "WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Vern,
I did already try that and it did not work.
But finally I got it solved! When I copied the shortcut from
"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\IBM Software
Delivery Platform\" to another location - the desktop - and then added
the language parameter, it worked!
And after that the shortcut under "C:\ProgramData" went also to work
with the language parameter.
Difference between the two locations is that "C:\ProgramData" is under
administrative restriction. How strange that "run as administrator"
did not help in this case, but a new shortcut did. Some kind of weird
initialization had to take place presumably...
Thanks to all who responded!
Regards,
-Arco
Op wo 13 feb. 2019 om 14:29 schreef Vernon Hamberg
<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Arco
A thought - try adding the language extension, then running as
administrator - who knows, this might be a change to the installation.
Now if that fails, contact IBM support - I assume you are under
maintenance?
HTH
Vern
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