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3.9 Performing Other Operations on Installed Software Products

To change the conﬁguration choices for an installed product, use the PRODUCT

RECONFIGURE command. The product kit must be present in the user’s default

directory or speciﬁed by the /SOURCE qualiﬁer or by the PCSI$SOURCE logical

name.

3.9.2 Recording a Change in Volume Label in the Product Database

To record a changed volume label in the product database, enter the PRODUCT

and the name of the device where the volume is mounted.

This command replaces all occurrences of the old volume label with the new

volume label. (The POLYCENTER Software Installation utility reads the new

label from the disk.)

Note that PRODUCT REGISTER VOLUME changes the information in the

product database only; it does not change the label on the volume. To rename a

volume, use the DCL command SET VOLUME. Then use PRODUCT REGISTER

VOLUME to record the new name.

You can also use the PRODUCT REGISTER VOLUME command to record a

change in the physical or logical device name.

3.9.3 Copying a Software Kit to a New Location

You can use the POLYCENTER Software Installation utility to copy product

distribution kits from one location to another. If you transfer a kit from tape to

disk, you can change the format from a sequential copy to a reference copy.

To copy a software kit from one location to another, use the PRODUCT COPY

command. Specify the current location with the /SOURCE qualiﬁer and the new

location with the /DESTINATION qualiﬁer. For example:

$ PRODUCT COPY/SOURCE=WORK_DISK:[KITS]/DESTINATION=LOCAL_DISK:[KIT_INSTALL] CMS

3.9.4 Converting a Software Kit from One Format to Another

You can convert a software kit from reference format (on disk or CD–ROM) to

sequential format or from sequential format to reference format by using the

/FORMAT qualiﬁer with PRODUCT COPY.

For example, to convert CMS from sequential format to reference format, enter

the following command:

$ PRODUCT COPY/FORMAT=REFERENCE/SOURCE=MUA1:/DESTINATION=LOCAL_DISK:[KIT_INSTALL] CMS

3.9.5 Retrieving Product Information

All of the information stored by the product database (PDB) can be accessed by

using the SHOW OBJECT, SHOW PRODUCT, and SHOW HISTORY commands.

This section describes how to use these commands to retrieve information from

the PDB.

3.9.5.1 Displaying Information About Objects

To display information about the managed objects (for example, ﬁles, accounts,

and directories) associated with the products installed on your system, use the

SHOW OBJECT command. Table 3–8 lists questions that can be answered with

SHOW OBJECT.

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