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Maintain Help/Systems Products with ISO Images

Use these instructions to create an image catalog on your server to allow you to maintain the Robot products on your system.

Using an Image Catalog

Step 1: Create a Directory for ISO Images (on the System i )

Enter the following command to create a directory on the System i for the ISO image (for example, HELPISO).

MKDIR DIR(‘/HELPISO’)

Step 2: Download Help/Systems ISO Images to your PC and FTP the Images to the System i

Help/Systems provides two ISO images, CD1 and CD2. Download each of these ISO images to maintain your Help/Systems products.

  1. Download the ISO images from the Help/Systems Web site to your PC. Contact Help/Systems Technical Support for the URL for the download.

    2. Note: Download both ISO images for CD1 and CD2: HS_CD1_xxxxxxxx.iso and HS_CD2_xxxxxxxx.iso

  2. FTP both ISO images from your PC to the System i directory you created in Step 1 (‘/HELPISO’).

    3. Note: Use the following FTP command to put the ISO images into the IFS directory.

    QUOTE SITE NAMEFMT 1

Step 3: Create an Optical Device and Image Catalog

Use the following steps to maintain the Robot products on the System i.

  1. Create a virtual optical device.

    2. CRTDEVOPT DEVD(OPTHELPISO) RSRCNAME(*VRT)

  2. Vary on the virtual optical device.

    3. VRYCFG CFGOBJ(OPTHELPISO) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*ON)

  3. Create the Image Catalog.

    4. CRTIMGCLG IMGCLG(HELPIMGCLG) DIR(HELPIMGCLG) TYPE(*OPT) CRTDIR(*YES) TEXT(‘HELPSYSTEMS ISO IMAGE CATALOG’)

Step 4: Add and Load the Image Catalog Entries

  1. Add the image catalog entries.

    2. ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG(HELPIMGCLG) FROMFILE(‘/HELPISO/HS_CD1_xxxxxxxx.iso’) TOFILE(*fromfile) TEXT(‘Helpsystems ISO Image’)

    ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG(HELPIMGCLG) FROMFILE(‘/HELPISO/HS_CD2_xxxxxxxx.iso’) TOFILE(*fromfile) TEXT(‘Helpsystems ISO Image’)

  2. Load the image catalog.

    3. LODIMGCLG IMGCLG(HELPIMGCLG) DEV(OPTHELPISO)

    Note: If the LODIMGCLG command fails, do the following and try the command again:

    WRKIMGCLGE IMGCLG(HELPIMGCLG)

    If the STATUS is IN_ERROR, select Option 9, Unload, and then Option 8, Load

    Execute the LODIMGCLG command again.

  3. Confirm that the loaded ISO image is correct by entering the following command.

    4. WRKIMGCLGE IMGCLG(HELPIMGCLG)

    Note: If the wrong image is mounted, then enter Option 6, Mount, next to the image that you want to use to update the Help/Systems products.

  4. Execute the LODRUN command to display the Help/Systems Menu.

    5. LODRUN DEV(OPTHELPISO)

  5. Now you can maintain the Help/Systems products.

Step 5: Unload the Image Catalog

  1. Unload the Image Catalog HELPIMGCLG.

    2. LODIMGCLG IMGCLG(HELPIMGCLG) OPTION(*UNLOAD) DEV(OPTHELPISO)

  2. Unload the Image Catalog entries for the ISO image.

    3. LODIMGCLGE IMGCLG(HELPIMGCLG) IMGCLGIDX(1) OPTION(*UNLOAD)

    LODIMGCLGE IMGCLG(HELPIMGCLG) IMGCLGIDX(2) OPTION(*UNLOAD)

  3. Remove the Image Catalog entries for the ISO image.

    4. RMVIMGCLGE IMGCLG(HELPIMGCLG) IMGCLGIDX(1) KEEP(*NO)

    RMVIMGCLGE IMGCLG(HELPIMGCLG) IMGCLGIDX(2) KEEP(*NO)

  4. Vary off the virtual optical device.

    5. VRYCFG CFGOBJ(OPTHELPISO) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*OFF)

Updated Feb. 9, 2011