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Installing CA IDMS Server on Windows

To install CA IDMS Server on Windows

1. Sign on with a user ID that has administrative authority.
2. To allow shared components to be updated properly, exit all Windows applications, including Microsoft Office tool bars, before beginning the installation of CA IDMS Server.
3. Insert the CA IDMS Server CD into your CD-ROM drive. The CA Product Explorer begins automatically. If it does not, right-click on the CD icon in the My Computer window and select Auto Start.
4. Select the Install CA IDMS Server option.
5. Before copying the files from the installation disk onto your system, the Installer displays the readme.txt file, containing information unavailable when this document was prepared.
6. Choose

   one

   of the following installation options:
   • Select Typical to install both the ODBC driver and the JDBC driver
   • Select Compact to install the ODBC driver only
   • Select Custom to choose which driver to install

   Note:

   The ODBC driver is always selected, because it installs components also used by the JDBC driver.

7. User-defined settings such as data sources and options which were created for an earlier release of CA IDMS Server are not compatible with r17. The CA IDMS Data Source Utility provides a way of converting these settings to make them usable. The utility is started automatically by the installer. Several conversion options are available:
   • No Conversion means that no data source conversion takes place. This is the default. Data sources for r17 must then be entered manually by the user after installation is complete, using the CA IDMS ODBC Administrator.
   • Convert in Place changes existing data sources to use the r17 driver. These data sources no longer work with the prior release of CA IDMS Server.
   • Create Copies with Prefix copies the data sources to new data sources that use the r17 driver, named with a prefix that you can specify.. The existing data sources are not changed.
   • Global Defaults copies options settings from the prior release.
   • JDBC Server copies settings for the JDBC server from the prior release.

Note: For more information about defining data sources, see the chapter "Configuring the Client on Windows."