- Powerbuilder V.11.5 Enterprise Edition Manual

CHAPTER 1 Installing PowerBuilder Enterprise
Installation Guide 5
Pre-installation tasks
Before you install PowerBuilder Enterprise, you need to perform the following
tasks:
• Read the release bulletins for the latest information on the products that
you are installing. Pay close attention to the “Special Installation
Instructions” section.
Release bulletins for PowerBuilder and InfoMaker are available in the
product package on the Getting Started CD.
Release bulletins for PowerBuilder and InfoMaker are also available on
the
Product Manuals Web site at http://www.sybase.com/support/manuals/.
The release bulletins at this site sometimes contain more recent
information than the bulletins on the Getting Started CD.
A readme.txt file for SQL Anywhere is available in the SQLAnywhere11
directory on the DVD.
• Make sure the drive where you install PowerBuilder Enterprise is not
compressed. If compression is enabled on the installation drive, the setup
program fails.
• Make sure you have a TEMP environment variable that points to an
existing directory location with at least 300MB free space. The setup
programs write files to this directory during the installation and free the
space after the installation is complete.
• Close any open applications.
• Back up your files. See “Backing up your files” next.
• Read “Required software for PowerBuilder features” on page 6 to
determine whether you need to install any software before installing
PowerBuilder 11.5.
Backing up your files
Back up any files created with earlier versions of Sybase tools. Make sure that
any PowerBuilder PBLs you plan to migrate have been regenerated without
error in your current version of PowerBuilder before you back them up.
Besides backing up your PBLs, you need to back up any files that contain
information you do not want to lose, such as database files, INI files,
preference information, and modified database definition files.