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Migration of Non-PIF Products

Sometimes, during an update, it may be useful to transform previously installed non-PIF products into PIF products.

Therefore, the Installer provides the migration mechanism. This mechanism is based on a (user-written) shell script, which is started the first time a PIF product is installed on the target computer. This script is not started during updates or reinstalls. Within this script, you can arrange the internal parameters for product installation path and product install job (INSTALL or UPDATE). These parameter values overwrite the default parameter settings.