{"id":1190,"date":"2017-12-04T04:49:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T04:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2020-01-09T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T09:30:30","slug":"troubleshooting-in-installanywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/troubleshooting-in-installanywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubleshooting in installanywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>deployexpert created the topic: Troubleshooting in installanywhere<\/strong><br \/>\nUnix<br \/>\nWhen running the installer against a 1.1.x VM, the Show Password Panel action will<br \/>\nnot echo keyboard input as asterisks. A bug in certain Java 1.1.x implementations may<br \/>\ncause an installer to crash if the text field has the echo character set. If the Unix<br \/>\ninstaller is run against a 1.1.x VM, this panel will show the entered password as clear<br \/>\ntext.<br \/>\nThe Show Choose Java VM Console action traces symbolic links for any data entered<br \/>\nas a path to a VM. This can lead it to display an unfamiliar path.<br \/>\nInstallAnywhere does not support pre-Java 2 Virtual Machines on RedHat 9. This is<br \/>\ndue to a known problem caused by RedHat switching to a new threading model in this<br \/>\nOS.<\/p>\n<p>z\/OS and OS\/390<br \/>\nz\/OS and OS\/390 use EBCDIC, instead of ASCII. InstallAnywhere installers work fine<br \/>\non these platforms, but certain actions behave differently than developers may expect.<br \/>\nWhen files are installed, they are installed using a binary copy mechanism. Text files<br \/>\nare installed the same way. When building the installer on a Windows system to be<br \/>\ninstalled on z\/OS, the text files will be installed in ASCII format. To have text files<br \/>\ninstalled in EBCDIC, first convert them using a tool like &#8220;native2ascii&#8221; (part of the<br \/>\nJ2SE SDK), then add them separately to the installer. Use Check Platform rules on<br \/>\nboth the ASCII text files and EBCDIC text files to indicate what platform the files<br \/>\nshould be installed on.<br \/>\nActions, such as Modify Text File, perform changes in the destination system&#8217;s<br \/>\nencoding. To have Modify Text File to make changes in ASCII, use a utility like<br \/>\n&#8220;native2ascii&#8221; to convert the file to ASCII after the Modify Text File action has<br \/>\ncompleted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>deployexpert created the topic: Troubleshooting in installanywhere Unix When running the installer against a 1.1.x VM, the Show Password Panel action will not echo keyboard input as asterisks. A bug&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}