ViewPoint Manual

Installation, Configuration, and Startup
ViewPoint Manual—426801-001
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Installation Steps
system. To avoid a security error, make sure you check the security attributes of the
ViewPoint ISV files.
To use the ViewPoint TACL routines :UTILS:DP, :UTILS:VIEWPT, and
:UTILS:VPTLIB, without typing :utils every time, include these TACL routines in your
use list. To do this for all users on your system, type the following commands in your
TACLLOCL file ($SYSTEM.SYSTEM.TACLLOCAL). Or, you can add these
commands to your TACLCSTM file to customize only your environment. The
commands you include are:
> #push #informat == save current value
> #set #informat TACL
> #set #uselist [#uselist] :utils:DP
:utils:viewpt:utils:vptlib
> #pop #informat == restore its value
Also, if you are installing ViewPoint onto a subvolume that contains an earlier version
of ViewPoint, you might want to rename the copies of your PATHDEFS, PATHCONF,
and PATHSTRT files because any existing copies of these files are erased during the
installation. (ViewPoint prompts you before erasing the files to give you a chance to
save them.) Later, you can refer to the settings in the old copies of PATHDEFS,
PATHCONF, and PATHSTRT when you are updating the new versions of files.
Finally, all ViewPoint processes run at a high PIN as the default; the exceptions are:
ZVPT-EVNT-COLL, ZVPT-EVNT-NTFY, and ZVPT-EVLE-COLL. These processes,
as well as PATHMON and PATHTCP2, must be run at a low PIN if you are running
ViewPoint under a mixed mode of C-series and D-series systems.
Installation Steps
To install ViewPoint using the ViewPoint Install TACL routine, follow these steps:
1. You have a choice of performing a full installation, which includes new program,
data, and configuration files, or updating the ViewPoint configuration file.
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To perform a full installation, which includes new program, data, and
configuration files, type:
filename
is the name of the define file. If you do not specify a define file, ViewPoint prompts
you for a file name. If you have not created a define file, you can use the default
file; press return when prompted for the file name.
VIEWPT:INSTALL [filename]
Note. If you do not see the ViewPoint banner when you give this, your system might not
be configured to point to the default search directory :UTILS. If you are not able to enter
ViewPoint, retype this command using the full path name:
:UTILS:VIEWPT:INSTALL