Maintenance Installation of Personal Communications iSeries

After you have successfully installed Personal Communications on your system, users can perform maintenance installations to their Personal Communications program. The maintenance installation utility has three functions:
  • Modify allows users to change their feature selection options. For details on changing feature tree selections, see Feature Selection.
  • Repair analyzes the current configuration of Personal Communications and either repairs or reinstalls damaged features.
  • Remove allows users to remove Personal Communications from their system.
    Note:
    1. When removing Personal Communications from your system, you are given the option to save the current program configuration for future installations of Personal Communications. If you choose to save the current settings, when you reinstall Personal Communications you are asked if you would like to use the previous settings to reinstall the product.
    2. To remove a source image of Personal Communications created during an administrative installation, you must manually delete the source image directory from the network drive.

After Personal Communications is successfully installed on your system, you can access maintenance installation through Add/Remove Programs from the Windows® Control Panel. Select Personal Communications from the list of installed programs and click Change to begin maintenance installation.

When the Program Maintenance dialog opens, select Modify, Repair, or Remove and click Next.

Note:
To successfully run maintenance installation, the Personal Communications installation image must be available on either the installation image or on the network server. If you installed from a network server, the installation image must still be present at the original network location. If the installation image is not present, when you use the Modify or Remove utility to add features or to remove Personal Communications from your system, you may receive one of the following error messages:
  • The feature you are trying to use is on a installation image or other removable disk that is not available.
  • The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is not available.
To continue with maintenance installation you must either insert the installation image or browse the network to find the new location of the installation image.