Previewing the installation and license agreements

Before installing IBM® COBOL for AIX®, V4.1, you can verify the installation process, check file sizes and disk space, and preview the license agreements using either SMIT or installp.

The terms and conditions for using COBOL for AIX are specified in the following PDF files, which are located in the root directory of the distribution package: After installation, the license PDF files can be found in the /usr/lpp/cobol/ directory with the file names:

Using SMIT

You can use the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) to preview the COBOL for AIX installation.

Follow the steps to install the compiler to the location given in Using SMIT. When prompted with the SMIT dialog to customize the installation in step 3, set the Preview only? field to yes. With this setting enabled, SMIT displays progress messages at each stage of the installation but does not actually install the compiler on your system.

Using installp

You can also preview the command-line installation process and write the output to a log file, using the installp command. Follow the steps to install the compiler to the location given in Using installp and specify the -p flag to preview the process without installing the compiler.

The following example previews the installation of all available compiler filesets in the /cdrom/usr/sys/inst.images source directory to the location /usr/lpp/cobol/ and writes an installation log file to /tmp/install.log.

Example:

installp -paXgd /cdrom/usr/sys/inst.images -e /tmp/install.log all