This page gives installation instructions for
our ISeries
utilities library.
You may receive the PSPUTIL software in the following
ways:
- Direct download of PSPUTIL.zip - around 2.5MB - from
a secure area of our Web site.
- A single email attachment PSPUTIL.zip - around
2.5MB.
- If a single email attachment of 2.5MB can not get
through your firewall, a series of separate email
attachments PSPUTIL.zip.001,
PSPUTIL.zip.002......PSPUTIL.zip.007 each of which is
around 400K in size. You concatenate these as
described below to build a single PSPUTIL.zip file.
To install the software:
- If you received separate email attachments
(PSPUTIL.zip.001 through PSPUTIL.zip.007), detach
these to your PC then open a Windows command prompt
and enter the following command (all on one line):
copy /B psputil.zip.001 + psputil.zip.002 +
psputil.zip.003 + psputil.zip.004 + psputil.zip.005
+ psputil.zip.006 + psputil.zip.007 psputil.zip
You should see a message like:
PSPUTIL.zip.001 PSPUTIL.zip.002 PSPUTIL.zip.003
PSPUTIL.zip.004 PSPUTIL.zip.005 PSPUTIL.zip.006
PSPUTIL.zip.007 1 file(s) copied.
- Double-click on PSPUTIL.zip to open the file using
WinZip or similar ZIP software. You will see that
PSPUTIL.ZIP contains one file PSPUTIL.SAVF. Extract
this file PSPUTIL.SAVF to your PC drive.
- Transfer the SAVF up to your ISeries to end up with
a SAVF called PSPUTIL (probably in QGPL library). If
you use FTP to do this transfer, you need to
pre-create an empty SAVF on the ISeries first then FTP
into that. The FTP transfer also needs to be 'binary',
not 'ascii'. If you do not want to use FTP, then you
can transfer in a different way if your ISeries is
mapped as a Windows network drive (please contact us
if you need further help with this method).
- On your ISeries, rename any current PSPUTIL library
you may have e.g. to PSPUTIL2. This is so you can go
back to your previous version of the utilities if you
want to. If you delete the old PSPUTIL library, make
sure you save the contents of the PSPLICKEY and PSPUSR
data areas somewhere first.
- On your ISeries, run RSTLIB SAVLIB(PSPUTIL)
DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(QGPL/PSPUTIL)
- Check the authority of the PSPUTIL library and the
objects within it after the RSTLIB. Make sure that
whoever is going to use it has enough authority.
- If you are starting a 30-day trial of PSPUTIL: If we
have not given you a license key for this (e.g. in an
email), you can get one yourself here.
You must get this trial license key, otherwise PSPUTIL
silently refuses to work - apart from messages to
*SYSOPR.
- If you are already a live user of PSPUTIL: Copy the
contents of the PSPLICKEY and PSPUSR data areas from
your old copy of the PSPUTIL library into the new
PSPUTIL library. If you ever forget/lose your license
key, you can get it again yourself here.
- In principle the utilities should always be in the
PSPUTIL library only e.g. some/all of the contents
should not be copied/moved into other libraries,
particularly if those libraries end up on a different
ISeries system. A reasonable number of copies of the
PSPUTIL library on offline media as part of your
regular backup cycles are assumed, but you are still
limited to the number of copies you have licensed -
including backup and disaster recovery machines.
- If you had a previous version of PSPUTIL and used
the PCMPDBF command, note that the format of the
PCMPDBRS results file changed several times. You need
to manually migrate any old copies of PCMPDBRS to
their new record format. Contact us if you need
further help with this conversion.
The SAVF contains SAVLIB LIB(PSPUTIL) with target OS/400
release of V5R2M0, so RSTLIB on that or any later release
should work. If you encounter any problems using the
PSPUTIL library objects, you can check the following sizes
for the current version of PSPUTIL:
- The SAVF on our source ISeries running V5R3 is
10,506,240 bytes.
- The SAVF as transferred to our source PC via binary
FTP is 10,555,776 bytes.
- The PSPUTIL.zip file is 2,662,808 bytes.
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