Re: Installation on MacOS X

[Scott Klement <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply.  The first time I did the reinstall, I could 
launch RDi, but a lot of the RSE features didn't work.

I wiped it out and reinstalled using UserInst, and got the same bad 
request and failure to access errors, and this time I could not figure 
out how to run it since apparently UserInst doesn't create launchers 
within /Applications/.   So, I manually poked around in the file system 
and figured out the appropriate programs to run (or, at least, guessed 
at them) and made symlinks in /Applications/ so that the launchers could 
be run.

Now it seems to work!   Thanks for your help!

-SK


On 2/13/2020 4:02 PM, Mike Hockings wrote:
> After the install did you try and start RDI?  If you installed 9.6.0.7 it
> should start up OK on the Mac with no twiddling.
>
> I don't have an explanation for them but you will see the failure to
> initialize at the end of the install, it will happen on first run.  The bad
> request and the failure to access
> https://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/action/notifyDownloadComplete
>   seem to happen in Windows too, but does not seem to cause any problems.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Mike Hockings, M.Eng., P.Eng.
> DevOps for Enterprise
> IBM Developer for z Systems and Power Systems Software Technical Support
> IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory
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>
>
>
> From:	Scott Klement <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:	wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date:	2020/02/13 16:07
> Subject:	[EXTERNAL] [WDSCI-L] Installation on MacOS X
> Sent by:	"WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> My RDi on my MacBook Pro was screwed up, so I decided to completely
> reinstall it.  I uninstalled RDi with the IBM Installation Manager, then
> I deleted the whole /Applications/ibm directory to make sure I had
> everything completely cleared out.
>
> Now I'm trying to reinstall.   Why is this so hard?!
>
> I downloaded the IBM Installation Manager, and of course that initially
> wouldn't run because it was untrusted from the internet and all that
> good stuff, so I found the IBM note about how to fix it and got past
> that.  Frustrating, but I figured it out.
>
> Next I started it up and installed the Installation Manager succesfully.
>
> Then, re-ran IM and added the respository for RDi 9.6, and started the
> RDi install.   It ends with "The packages are installed with warnings",
> and "Eclipse initialize returned with error status=1".   I clicked "View
> Log".
>
> The log shows "Reason: Bad Request (400)", followed by "Unable to
> complete http conversation
> https://www.ibm.com/software/respositorymanager/action/notifyInstallComplete
> ".
> This is followed by a number of warning messages about initialize
> failing and launcher not found.
>
> I've tried it several times, always seem to get this error.
>
> I can't understand why this is so hard.  I shouldn't have to download a
> zip file, use xattr to modify the zip file so that the Mac will allow me
> to install it, manually run the installer, manually add a repo, then
> after all of that have it fail.  Any other software on the planet is 100
> times easier to install and doesn't require all of these extra,
> complicated steps.  Why is RDi so difficult?
>
> And, why is it failing with Bad Request.   This looks a lot like an HTTP
> 400 Bad Request error, which would imply that the tool isn't generate
> the HTTP request in a valid way...    why on earth would that happen?
>
> Anyway, if you have any suggestions for how I can fix this, please let
> me know.
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