POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility Developer's Guide

Contents (summary)

• Chapter 1 Overview
• Chapter 2 POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility Concepts
• Chapter 3 Creating the Product Description File
• Chapter 4 Creating the Product Text File
• Chapter 5 Packaging the Kit
• Chapter 6 Advanced PDF Concepts
• Chapter 7 Product Description Language Statements
• Appendix A Migrating from VMSINSTAL to the POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility
• Glossary
• Index
• Figures
• Examples
• Tables

Contents

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  Chapter 1 Overview
  • 1.1 Features for Software Providers
  • 1.2 Coexistence with VMSINSTAL
  • 1.3 Creating an Installable Kit
    • 1.3.1 Gather All of the Product Files
    • 1.3.2 Plan Ahead
    • 1.3.3 Create a Product Description File
    • 1.3.4 Optionally, Create a Product Text File
    • 1.3.5 Package the Software Components
    • 1.3.6 Test and Debug the Installable Kit

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  Chapter 2 POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility Concepts
  • 2.1 Learn About the Product Database
    • 2.1.1 Querying the Product Database
    • 2.1.2 Registering Products in the Database
  • 2.2 Are There Specific Formats for Installable Kits?
  • 2.3 What Should You Call Your Software Product Kit?
    • 2.3.1 What Do the Subfields in the Name Mean?
    • 2.3.2 More About the Version Subfield
    • 2.3.3 What Version Information Will the OpenVMS User See?
    • 2.3.4 More About the kit_type Subfield
  • 2.4 Looking at Software Product Name Examples
  • 2.5 User Defined Logical Names
  • 2.6 Utility Defined Logical Names
  • 2.7 Managed Objects
    • 2.7.1 Creating Managed Objects
    • 2.7.2 Managed Object Conflict
    • 2.7.3 Preventing Managed Object Conflict
    • 2.7.4 Managed Object Replacement and Merging
    • 2.7.5 Managed Object Scope and Lifetime
  • 2.8 Optional Information --- Packaging a Platform
  • 2.9 A Word About Input and Output Versions of Files

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  Chapter 3 Creating the Product Description File
  • 3.1 General Guidelines
  • 3.2 Defining Your Environment
  • 3.3 PDF File Naming Conventions
  • 3.4 Structure of a PDF
    • 3.4.1 Overview of PDL Statements
    • 3.4.2 PDL Statement Syntax
    • 3.4.3 PDL Function Syntax and Expressions
    • 3.4.4 PDL Data Types and Values
  • 3.5 Writing a PDF for a Full Kit
  • 3.6 Writing a PDF for a Platform Kit
  • 3.7 Writing a PDF for a Transition Kit

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  Chapter 4 Creating the Product Text File
  • 4.1 PTF File Naming Conventions
  • 4.2 Structure of a PTF
    • 4.2.1 Specifying the Product Name
    • 4.2.2 PTF Modules and the Relationship with the PDF
    • 4.2.3 PTF Modules Not Related with the PDF
    • 4.2.4 Including Prompt and Help Text

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  Chapter 5 Packaging the Kit

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  Chapter 6 Advanced PDF Concepts
  • 6.1 Defining the Scope of a Managed Object
  • 6.2 Updating Files
  • 6.3 Managed Object Lifetimes

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  Chapter 7 Product Description Language Statements
  • 7.1 A Word About Using New Features
  • Command 1 account
  • Command 2 apply to
  • Command 3 bootstrap block
  • Command 4 directory
  • Command 5 end
  • Command 6 error
  • Command 7 execute install...remove
  • Command 8 execute login
  • Command 9 execute postinstall
  • Command 10 execute release
  • Command 11 execute start...stop
  • Command 12 execute test
  • Command 13 file
  • Command 14 hardware device
  • Command 15 hardware processor
  • Command 16 if
  • Command 17 infer
  • Command 18 information
  • Command 19 link
  • Command 20 loadable image
  • Command 21 module
  • Command 22 network object
  • Command 23 option
  • Command 24 part
  • Command 25 patch image (VAX only)
  • Command 26 patch text
  • Command 27 process parameter
  • Command 28 process privilege
  • Command 29 product
  • Command 30 register module
  • Command 31 remove
  • Command 32 rights identifier
  • Command 33 scope
  • Command 34 software
  • Command 35 system parameter
  • Command 36 upgrade

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  Appendix A Migrating from VMSINSTAL to the POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility
  • A.1 VMSINSTAL Options and Equivalents
  • A.2 VMSINSTAL Callbacks and Equivalents

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  Glossary

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  Index

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  Examples
  • 3-1 Checktran Product Description File
  • 3-2 UCX Product Description File
  • 3-3 Product Description File for a Platform Kit
  • 3-4 FMS Product Description File

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  Figures
  • 2-1 Package Operation
  • 2-2 Integrated Platform Example

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  Tables
  • 2-1 Format of tmmnn-ue Version Identification
  • 2-2 PDF Kit Types and Values
  • 3-1 Base Data Types and Values
  • 3-2 String Data Type Constraints
  • 7-1 Directory Managed Object Scope and Lifetime
  • 7-2 File Managed Object Scope and Lifetime
  • 7-3 Link Managed Object Scope and Lifetime
  • 7-4 Library Types for Module Statement
  • 7-5 Library Types for Register Module Statement
  • A-1 VMSINSTAL Options and Equivalents
  • A-2 VMSINSTAL Callbacks and Equivalents

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