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APAR status Closed as program error. Error description There seems to be a bug with the WAS 4.0.2 installation when using the silent mode (regular installation works fine) Denise found out while tracing the script that the standard install does not check if the WAS path is valid while in silent mode it does and it also check for the products.xml while does not exist on a machine that has only IHS and the plugin to WAS. . This seems to be a bug.Local fix . Here is the fix that I come up with to bypass the problem with the WAS FP2 silent install on windows. Basically, I have it check if the WAS_HOME dir is exist instead of checking the produt.xml file since it's missing if you only have WAS plug-in component installed. I believe this is how the WAS FP2 unix version of install.sh script on unix platform checks. Please checks with the development if this would be an approved fix. . However, the install in non-silent mode not verifying the was path problem still exist. But I won't make a change for this since we run the fixpak silently and the path is preset so the problem won't happen. . I Change the following section . :check_silent_vars Set OverWriteBUJ=-OverWriteBackupJar IF NOT EXIST %WAS_HOME%\properties\com\ibm\websphere\product.xml echo E r r o r -- Invalid WAS_HOME set. IF NOT EXIST %WAS_HOME%\properties\com\ibm\websphere\product.xml goto usage . to . :check_silent_vars Set OverWriteBUJ=-OverWriteBackupJar IF NOT EXIST %WAS_HOME% echo E r r o r -- Invalid WAS_HOME set. IF NOT EXIST %WAS_HOME% goto usage --------------------- (end of e-mail) ------------------------- . - Can you approve the above fix sent by Denise? . Thanks JF pb=aesebz,993Problem summary **************************************************************** * USERS AFFECTED: WebSphere Application Server 4.0.2 Advanced * * and Single Server editions installing ptf 2 * * on Windows using silent install. * **************************************************************** * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: The silent install for 4.0 ptf 2 fails * * on Windows machines that only have the * * plugin and web server installed (ie: * * an install that does not contain the * * product.xml file). It fails saying * * that the WAS_HOME the user provided * * is not correct. * **************************************************************** * RECOMMENDATION: * **************************************************************** PTF 2 checks for the product.xml file during a silent install, if it does not find one then it throws an error saying that the user provided a bad WAS_HOME.Problem conclusion The ptf install script was changed to check if the WAS_HOME that the user provided exists, instead of checking for the product.xml file.Temporary fix Comments
APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following: APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following: Modules/Macros
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Document Information |
Product categories: Software > Application Servers >
Distributed Application & Web Servers > WebSphere Application
Server > General
Operating system(s):
Software version: 400
Software edition:
Reference #: PQ58084
IBM Group: Software Group
Modified date: Feb 28, 2002
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