Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (G06.25+, H06.03+)

Managing OSS Files
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Using PINSTALL
archive file. You can use the -cvf flags of the PINSTALL command to display the
table of contents for the pax archive to determine if the named file is actually an
empty directory.
Using PINSTALL
PINSTALL is used when:
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An SPR is installed manually
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Ported or third-party software requires you to install ustar-format files into the
OSS file system
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The COPYOSS utility invokes it
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You do not use DSM/SCM to install and maintain your OSS product files but a
major upgrade requires you to load multiple new or revised pax archives into the
OSS file system
You can speed up the process of loading OSS product files by loading individual files in
parallel. You can do this in either of the following ways:
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Run the PINSTALL utility in each of multiple terminal windows
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Repeatedly run the PINSTALL utility with the NOWAIT option on your home
terminal and send the output of each command to the spooler
For example, to load the contents of the basic OSS product set files individually, enter
a PINSTALL command at a TACL prompt in the following form for each file on the
ZOSSUTL subvolume that has a file code of 0 or 180:
PINSTALL -rvf /G/tsvvol/zossutl/archfile
tsvvol
is the disk volume where DSM/SCM puts your TSVs.
archfile
is the Guardian file identifier for a pax archive file.
The options (such as -rvf) to the PINSTALL utility are case-sensitive. For more
information about the PINSTALL utility, see the pinstall(1) reference page either
online or in the Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual.
Considerations
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Do not use PINSTALL on the files in an SPR if DSM/SCM installs the SPR and its
Manage OSS Files check box is selected.
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Do not use PINSTALL on the entire contents of a subvolume. Files that have file
identifiers beginning with ZFB or ZPG are probably old files renamed by DSM/SCM