Re: SAVLICPGM changing QBRMS?

[Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

fbocch2595@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I ran option 22 from the save menu and the LPP's didn't save, so I'm wondering how the savsys completed successfully but LPP's didn't save.  

That's pretty much what I was saying -- SAVSYS does not perform any 
SAVLICPGM commands.

An LPP has a couple general categories of "things" that make up the 
product -- it generally has at least one library with objects in 
that library, as well as possible directories and/or folders with 
things in those; and it has stuff that gets handled by i5/OS apart 
from actual LPP objects. If you only save the library, then the 
operating system parts aren't part of what gets saved.

SAVSYS can save any libraries that start with Q* that are LPP 
libraries, but they might not be particularly useful for restore 
purposes. (They might be useful; it can depend on exactly what kind 
of restore needs to be done.)

SAVLICPGM does the stuff necessary to prepare to return an LPP to 
the state it was in at the time of the save, i.e., setting up the 
savefile for what RSTLICPGM does which includes 'registering' it 
with i5/OS and running any exit-programs that might need to prepare 
the environment, verify pre-requisites, or whatever is needed.

I'm not an expert at this, so that's about as close as I can get for 
a general overview.

I suppose you could think in terms of Windows. If you go into the 
/Program Files directory and copy the /Microsoft Office subdirectory 
to another PC, I wouldn't expect many Office functions to work well 
if at all. You can certainly save that subdirectory and restore 
stuff from it, but it doesn't do anywhere near the same thing as 
actually installing Microsoft Office.

In AIX, I think the 'install' command is somewhat similar to 
RSTLICPGM. Note that 'install' isn't an available command within 
PASE. AFAIK, that's part of the reason you can't just restore every 
product that's available for AIX and run them. Some products must be 
"installed".

And that pretty much exhausts my scope on those platforms for this 
subject.

Hope that helps light some of it up.

Tom Liotta