This document covers the following topics:
The account under which the installation is performed must have administrator rights.
During the installation, you are asked to specify an installation directory in which to install your Software AG products. By default, the name of the main installation directory is C:\SoftwareAG.
The directory name should not contain embedded spaces. For further information, see Using the Software AG Installer.
The default Start Menu Group is .
You can install the same Adabas version more than once on the same machine. And you can also install several different versions of Adabas on the same machine. Each version, however, must be installed in a separate directory. You cannot overwrite an existing version, you can only uninstall it.
Choose for instance C:\SoftwareAG\Suite1 for the first installation and C:\SoftwareAG\Suite2 for the second one. Accordingly, the related Start Menu Groups should be named Software AG and Software AG2.
If several Adabas versions are installed on the same machine, it is recommended to install any other Software AG products using Adabas into the directory where the specific Adabas version had been installed.
Adabas requires that every Adabas installation is licensed separately. The Adabas license has to be activated for each installation directory. For further information see Final Installation Steps.
In a Windows environment in which multiple Adabas installations of the same version exist, only one installation can be active. In order to switch to another installation, the previous installation must first be deactivated and the current installation activated.
Activating an Adabas Server installation registers and starts the Adabas services for the current installation.
Deactivating an Adabas Server installation deregisters and stops the Adabas services for the previous installation.
To activate an Adabas installation
Activate the current installation via the menu under: .
To deactivate an Adabas installation
Deactivate the previous installation via the menu under: .
Adabas stores its configuration data and information about the available databases in a directory identifed by the environment variable ADADATADIR. In particular, if you use Adabas Extended Operations or the Adabas Manager, the descriptions of all databases to be accessed must be stored in ADADATADIR.
The database IDs used must be unique on the same machine. Moreover, the file ADABAS.INI located in %ADADATADIR%\etc contains setup data that should be unique on your machine as well.
ADADATADIR is by default the Program Data directory: %PROGRAMDATA%\Software AG\Adabas .
You can change the value of ADADATADIR for the current installation by running change_adadatadir.bat from an appropriate DOS command prompt. For further information, refer to the section ADADATADIR in the Upgrade Guide in this section.
As you move through the wizard, the installer stores some of the files it requires in a temporary directory. If you cancel the installer and later restart it on the same machine, the installer will use the stored files rather than downloading them from the installer server again, to improve performance. After a successful installation, the installer deletes the stored files.
If you cancel the installation before it has finished and if you want to remove already installed files, you have to do this manually. For further information, see Uninstalling Adabas.
The Adabas Client environment will be automatically set as a global environment, unless another environment is already set as a global environment and the version of this environment is higher than or equal to the version to be installed.
The environment variables ADADATADIR and ADAPROGDIR are mandatory environment variables which must be defined for Adabas utilities. If either one or both is undefined, this will result in failure and Adabas utilities execution will end. Both environment variables ADADATADIR and ADAPROGDIR have a default value defined.