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Installing Robot/REPORTS 7.0

Product: 
Robot/REPORTS

Before You Begin

Read these instructions completely before you begin.

  • The Robot/REPORTS installation process calls a Help/Systems program to create or change the two Help/Systems user profiles, RBTUSER and RBTADMIN. These profiles own all Robot/REPORTS objects. RBTADMIN has the characteristics of a QSECOFR profile. RBTUSER has attributes like QPGMR. Directory entries are added automatically for the RBTADMIN and RBTUSER profiles.
  • The RBTUSER and RBTADMIN profiles were created for the following reasons:
    • They satisfy requests from corporate auditors that our objects be owned differently from IBM objects.
    • They allow us to build a secure product for your environment.
    • They isolate Help/Systems products from IBM changes to the QPGMR or QSECOFR profile defaults.

      • Note: If you have made any manual changes to the RBTUSER or RBTADMIN user profiles and their authorities, these changes will be lost with any product installation or conversion.

  • If you have any network security products, be aware that the GUI version of Robot/REPORTS uses the RMTCMD server and the QIBM_QZRC_RMT exit point. We recommend that the exit point be open to RBTUSER, RBTADMIN, and the user logging into the Robot/REPORTS GUI application.

Installing Robot/REPORTS

  1. Sign on under a user profile that is a member of the user class *SECOFR and has at least the following special authorities: *ALLOBJ, *SECADM, *JOBCTL, and *IOSYSCFG. The user profile should have Limit capabilities set to *NO.
  2. End all Help/Systems products. The install process may stop the RBTSLEEPER subsystem, which is used by other Help/Systems products. Stopping RBTSLEEPER interrupts processing by these products.
  3. Make sure that the library QTEMP is in your library list before you start installing.
  4. Enter the following command to display the Maintain Help/Systems Products menu:

    5. RBTCDRLIB/HLPCDMENU

  5. Select option 1 from the Maintain Help/Systems Products menu to display the Install Products panel, which lists the Help/Systems products not currently installed on your system.

    6. If you would like more information about a product and its features, enter a 3 next to the product name.

  6. Option 1 on the Install Products panel displays the Install Instructions panel for the product; this is the same information included in the Before You Begin and After You Are Done sections of these instructions. 
  7. When you are ready to start installing, enter a 2 next to Robot/REPORTS on the Install Products panel.

    8. The installation program installs Robot/REPORTS , the RBTSYSLIB library (as needed), and two user profiles (RBTADMIN and RBTUSER). It adds RBTSYSLIB to the system portion of your library list if required.

When the installation completes, read the After You Are Done instructions for any additional information or instructions.

After You Are Done

After the installation process completes, delete the library REPTEMP from your system using the following command:

DLTLIB REPTEMP

The installation program restored four libraries to your System i: RBTREPLIB, RBTSYSLIB, RBNREPMST, and REPMRGLIB.

Installing Robot/REPORTS on a PC

To install the Robot/REPORTS interface on a PC, download the Robot/REPORTS PC code and follow the instructions that display.

Accessing Online Help from the PC

When you run Robot/REPORTS on your PC, you can view help text in Portable Document Format (PDF) directly from the PC. You must install Acrobat Reader on each PC that you installed the PC portion of Robot/REPORTS.

Viewing PDF Files

Robot/REPORTS lets you convert System i reports to PDF format, to be viewed on any computer. You must install Adobe Acrobat Reader on each computer that will be used to view the PDF reports.

Displaying the Main Menu

Enter the following command to display the Robot/REPORTS Main Menu:

RBTREPLIB/REP

Select option 6 and set up Robot/REPORTS on your system as described in the Getting Started Guide (or in the System Setup section of the Administrator Guide).

Notes:

  • You can download online versions of the Robot/REPORTS user documentation and use Adobe Acrobat Reader to display the manuals online.
  • The Help/Systems installation process restored the following three libraries to your system for use during installation: HSBOOT, RBTCDRLIB, and HSSAVF. In case you are doing multiple installations, we do not remove them from your system. You can delete them when you have finished your installations.

Updated Jan. 10, 2012