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Installation projects

The Installation System uses projects to organize separate installations of one or more products. Each project:

  • Accumulates the information needed to generate the JCL to install and configure a product
  • Installs and configures any combination of products, solutions, families, and components at the same time

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For more information, view the Quick Course Installation System - Installation Projects.

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For a list of Quick Courses about the Installation System, see PDFs-and-videos. 

Related topics

Creating-and-selecting-a-project

Managing-projects

Advantages of projects

Using projects offers these advantages:

  • You can exit the installation at any time and resume at your convenience. To resume, go to the Execute Project panel and select the option corresponding to where you stopped.
  • Multiple people can use the same project—although only one person can access the project at a time.
  • You can copy projects and JCL data sets to aid in subsequent installations.

  • Projects are stored in the Installation System repository (discussed in Preparing-the-Installation-System-repository) and remain there unless manually deleted.

    Important

    For security, a project's associated FTP and firewall user IDs and passwords are not stored in the Installation System repository.

    Best practice

    We recommend retaining your projects. They contain the variables, values, and defaults that you used in the original installation.

Active project

The active project is indicated in the following ways:

  • In the Active Project field on the Installation System Main Menu
  • By an asterisk next to the project name on the Manage Projects panel

Autosave of projects

Projects are automatically saved at the following points:

  • When you make a change to the project and exit the project.
  • Before generating the installation JCL.
  • Before generating the configuration JCL.
  • After selecting a configuration option on the Configure Products or Components panel but not making any changes to the project and exiting the project.

 

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