The ADABAS installation program (setup) copies the program files of the ADABAS tools to a directory on your local computer and makes the necessary adaptations to your Windows environment.
Under certain circumstances, some files that are required for the execution of the ADABAS tools will be copied to the WINDOWS SYSTEM directory. If you do not use Windows locally but within a network, you must have write access to the WINDOWS SYSTEM directory. As other Windows applications use some of the files to be copied, you should ensure that there are no other started applications active while you perform the ADABAS setup. Otherwise, it could happen that the setup must be cancelled because it tries to update files in the SYSTEM directory that are accessed by another application.
To install the ADABAS tools on a client PC, perform the following steps:
1. Start Microsoft Windows by entering WIN at the MS-DOS prompt.
2. Insert the first diskette in drive A (or B).
3. Choose Run from the File menu of the Windows Program Manager.
4. Type a:\setup (or B:\setup, if you inserted the first diskette in drive B) in the command line displayed.
The ADABAS setup starts with the message "initializing adabas d setup". After a certain time, a welcome window appears. Choose Continue to go on with the installation.
5. During installation, the setup program will ask for the name of the ADABAS directory (DBROOT).
If you are already running one of the ADABAS tools on your computer and merely want to install one more, enter the name of the existing ADABAS directory.
If this is the first time you are installing an ADABAS tool on your client PC, you may choose any name for the ADABAS directory to be created.
6. If you are installing ADABAS OfficePlus and want to use the AccessPlus applications, enter the directory in which Microsoft Access has been installed. Otherwise, ignore the input field and acknowledge. In this case, the AccessPlus program files will indeed be installed but no icons for AccessPlus will be created in the Program Manager. For subsequent creation of these icons, consult the chapter "accessplus" in the OfficePlus manual.
7. The setup program then asks which TCP/IP product will be used for communication (Windows Sockets or special Novell LAN WorkPlace DLL, see Section System Requirements on the Client PC ). Choose the product that has been successfully installed on your workstation. If you are not sure which product is available on your computer, ask your system administrator.
8. The program files of the ADABAS tools are then copied. You will be asked to insert more installation disks in the drive, if necessary. After inserting the required diskette, confirm with OK.
9. If you are installing the software package "adabas windows clients", you may skip the explanations below and go immediately to "comparing and updating autoexec.bat", later in this chapter.
After copying the ADABAS files and creating the "adabas d" program group, a window appears informing you that the ODBC administrator must be started to install the ADABAS ODBC driver in your Windows environment.
The ADABAS tools or other Windows applications can only access ADABAS data after an ODBC data source has been installed for each ADABAS database (SERVERDB) by using the Microsoft ODBC administrator.
Choose Continue to start the ODBC administrator.
Note: You can also choose Exit to skip this installation step and perform it later. This step must be performed in any case; otherwise, you will not be able to work with the ADABAS tools. To start the ODBC administrator, double-click on the "odbc administrator" program icon in the ADABAS program group. Then proceed as described in the following item (10). Only after creating one (or more) ODBC data source(s) for your SERVERDB(s) in this way, you will be able to access ADABAS data using the ADABAS tools or other Windows applications.
If you selected Continue, the "data sources" window of the Microsoft ODBC administrator appears.
10. Create a new ODBC data source for ADABAS by clicking on the button Add. A window with a list of the installed ODBC drivers appears.
Select the "adabas d" entry from the "installed odbc drivers" list. Click on OK. The "adabas odbc setup" window appears.
In this window, the following parameters must be filled in:
| Data Source Name : | A unique name for the data source. This can be the name of the ADABAS database (SERVERDB) or a synonym for it, e.g., "customerdb". |
| Description : | A comment to describe the database may be entered, e.g., "berlin customer database". You are free to fill in this field or not. |
| Serverdb : | Enter the database name (SERVERDB), e.g., "db611". |
| Servernode : | Enter the node name of the database server (SERVERNODE), e.g., "dbserver1". |
All required parameters must be filled in before you can click the OK button to save the settings.
The newly installed ADABAS data source then appears in the "data sources (driver)" list of the ODBC administrator. The name of the ODBC driver, "adabas d", is indicated after the name of the data source, enclosed in parentheses.
Repeat step 10 to create more data sources for ADABAS databases (SERVERDBs).
After successful installation of data sources for all SERVERDBs, select Close to leave the ODBC administrator.
Notes: The ODBC administrator can be called up any time subsequent to the installation to change the settings or to configure entries for additional SERVERDBs. Double-click on the "odbc Administrator" program icon in the adabas program group to start the odbc administrator.
To change settings, select the corresponding ADABAS data source (DataSource) and click on Setup...
To configure a new ADABAS data source, e.g., for another SERVERDB, proceed as described in item 10. To delete a data source no longer needed, select it in the list of data sources and click on Delete.