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Moving Robot/REPORTS To Another System

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Robot/REPORTS

These instructions describe how to move Robot/REPORTS from its current system (the source system) to another iSeries system (the target system).

Before You Begin

  • If you are using Robot/ALERT or Robot/CLIENT to e-mail reports, you must have these products installed and configured on the target system.
  • If you are using a report processing type of ROBOT on the source system, Robot/SCHEDULE must be installed and configured on the target system with the correct jobs needed to process reports.
  • You will need to back up and restore some libraries on the two systems. However, the only time you must back up and restore the RBTSYSLIB library is if there are no Help/Systems products currently installed on the target system (see Steps 1 and 3 below, and Step 1 on the next page).

On The Source System

  1. Verify that there are no object locks on your critical libraries by entering the following command:

    2. WRKOBJLCK OBJ(libraryname) OBJTYPE(*LIB)

    where: libraryname is RBTREPLIB, REPSHTRMLB, REPMRGLIB (if you have Robot/NETWORK installed), RBNREPMST (if you have Robot/NETWORK installed), and RBTSYSLIB (if you have no Help/Systems products installed on the target system).

  2. End Robot/REPORTS by performing the following steps:
    • From the Robot/REPORTS Main Menu, select option 4, Control Menu.
    • From the Control Menu, select option 2, End Output Queue Monitoring.
    • In the RBTSLEEPER subsystem, check whether the Robot/REPORTS job, REPDLTMON, is running. If it is running, end it.
  3. Back up some or all of the following libraries based on your software configuration, as described below:
    4. Library Description
    RBTREPLIB, REPSHTRMLB Back up these libraries for Robot/REPORTS.
    REPMRGLIB, RBNREPMST Back up these libraries if you have Robot/NETWORK
    installed.
    RBTSYSLIB Back up this library only if there are no Help/Systems products installed on the target system.

On The Target System

  1. Perform the following tasks based on your target system configuration.
    2. If... Then...
    Robot/REPORTS is installed on the target system

    Verify that there are no product locks on your Robot/REPORTS libraries by using the following command:

    WRKOBJLCK OBJ(libraryname) OBJTYP(*LIB)

    where: libraryname is RBTREPLIB or REPSHTRMLB

    Back up and then delete the RBTREPLIB and REPSHTRMLB libraries on the target system.
    Robot/NETWORK is installed on the target system

    Verify that there are no product locks on your Robot/NETWORK libraries by using the following command:

    WRKOBJLCK OBJ(libraryname) OBJTYP(*LIB)

    where: libraryname is RBNREPMST or REPMRGLIB

    Back up and then delete the RBNREPMST and REPMRGLIB libraries on the target system.

    The RBTSYSLIB library is not on the target system

    Important: Perform these steps only if there are no Help/Systems products installed on the target system.

    Restore the RBTSYSLIB library from the source system.

    Add the RBTSYSLIB library to the top of your system library list by editing the QSYSLIBL system value.

    Enter the following command:

    WRKSYSVAL QSYSLIBL

    Select option 2 to change the system value.

    Make RBTSYSLIB the first library in the system library list.

    Sign off and back on the system to make the new system value active.
    The RBTUSER and RBTADMIN user profiles are not on the target system

    Re-create them using the following command:

    CALL RSL062
  2. Restore the following libraries from the source system:
    • RBTREPLIB
    • REPSHTRMLB\
    • RBNREPMST (if you use Robot/NETWORK)
    • REPMRGLIB (if you use Robot/NETWORK)
  3. Verify that the following libraries, user profiles, and so forth exist on the target system and match the ones from the source system:
    • Robot/REPORTS user profiles
    • Output queues that Robot/REPORTS monitors and distributes reports to
    • Microfiche file libraries
    • Archiving—verify that your storage options are correct.
    • From the Robot/REPORTS Main Menu select option 6, System Setup Menu. From the System Setup Menu, select option 1, System Defaults, and verify that your short term and long term storage options are set correctly.
    • Robot/ALERT and Robot/CLIENT e-mail options
    • Any folders to which Robot/REPORTS distributes Portable Document Format (pdf), client (txt), or spreadsheet (cvs, xls) files.
    • Any compare data vales specified in a report set must be valid on the new system.

After You Are Done

If the name of the target system is different than the name of the source system, run the following command on the target system to update Robot/REPORTS files with the new target system name:

RSLCHGSYSN BEFORE(sourcesystem) AFTER(targetsystem) PRODUCT(REPORTS)

where: sourcesystem is the name of the original system; targetsystem is the name of the destination system.

New License Code

You must enter a new license code on the target iSeries system to make Robot/REPORTS active.

  1. Contact your Help/Systems Regional Sales Manager to obtain your new license code.
  2. On the target iSeries system, enter the following commands:

    3. ADDLIBLE RBTREPLIB

    CALL REP280

  3. When the Robot/REPORTS License Setup panel displays, enter your new license code and press Enter.

Updated Sept. 18, 2007