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Of course, when the product is not yet installed on your IBM i, you need an INSTALL_PRODUCT, too.
Start the INSTALL_PRODUCT order
Use option 2 (or F11 from the TIM Status Screen) and select INSTALL_PRODUCT to start the installation of a new product or a major update:
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When you select option 3=Immediately, nothing will happen, because you haven't started the subsystem yet (Option 26 from TIM's main menu)TIM will start installing (or updating) the software right away. In this case you must make sure that none of the software's resources are blocked, i.e. by a user using it.
When you select option 1 or 2 and start the subsystem, TIM will download the files that it needs for the installation immediately but wait with delay the actual installation until the time that you give.
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Remember: regardless of the option you use, you must start the TIM subsystem. As long as the subsystem is inactive, nothing will happen. |
Now, take a look at option 1 of go back to TIM's main menu :and select option 1=Display status TIM
You will find your order in status "NEW" but in the lower section the three "Current Work" lines are yet empty.
Also, TIM informs you in the upper part that "The sub system TMSTIM is not started". So, we need to start the subsystem.
Start the TIM subsystem ("TMSTIM")
In order to do this go back to TIM's main menu and select option 26:
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First, the still is no activity to be observed in the lower Current Work section. Please be patient.
After a couple of minutes press F5.
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Now the Remark column has gone to -active- and in the lower section you see that the activity has started.
By pressing F5 every now and then you will see changes in this progress information.
- Phase 1 - Product Check running
- Restore of objects
- Migration of objects
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- Phase 2 - Installation is in process
- Checking locks
In "real life" you will probably leave TIM alone at this state and come back after a while to look at the results.
Installation complete
When the installation finishes completely then the status display will show this (this screenshot has been taken after a different installation, so please do not worry about the product name differing from the previous screen shots):
- The status of each of the orders has gone to FINISHED
- The Remark has gone to REMOVE active. This means that you can now remove the order (TIM will not do that automatically) any time that it suits you.
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As long as the order is not removed you can do a rollback to go back to the previous version. The order RECOVER_PRODINSTALL will accomplish this. So you will probably wait a couple of days before you remove an order, to make sure that the new version works satisfactorily. |
What happens, when someone is using the software during installation?
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