Thanks, Rolf!  It worked for me, too.

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Larry Sanders                         Email:  cclrs AT showme.missouri DOT edu
Larry Sanders                         Email:  cclrs AT showme.missouri DOT edu
University Computing Services         Phone:  (573) 882-6002
University of Missouri - Columbia
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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Rolf Bogus wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Rolf Bogus wrote:

> Larry,
>
> we did what you wanted to do for the same reasons and it works.
>
> > Before upgrading my production V2 ADSM server to V3, I of course need to
> > do some testing.  Since installation of V3 requires removing V2, I first
> > installed V3 on a test machine.  However, I need to be able to run a test
> > V3 server on the same machine as my production V2 server, because that is
> > where the 3590 tape drives (in a 3494) are attached.  It seems to me that
> > I ought to be able to do that, using a different TCPPORT, separate log and
> > database and disk storage pools, and different category numbers for a few
> > tapes in the 3494.
> >
> > So, I copied all of the files in /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin from the test
> > machine where V3 was installed to a different directory on my production
> > machine.  I edited the dsmserv.opt file to change the TCPPORT, and
> > formatted a new log and database.  However, when I start the server, I get
> > a great many messages like the following:
> >
> >   Error retrieving message nnnnn for 1 from EN_US
> > or
> >   << Message number nnnnn not available for language EN_US >>
> >
> > The server seems to initialize OK, and I can issue commands at the
> > console, but most of them result in messages like the ones above.  It
> > seems that the server is not finding the message repository file.
> > Apparently there were one or more steps performed during the install by
> > SMIT that didn't carry over when I copied the files from the test machine
> > to the production machine.
> >
> > Has anyone been successful trying to run both a V2 and V3 AIX server on
> > the same machine?  How do I get around this problem of messages not being
> > found?  And even if I get around this problem, are there other problems
> > with what I am attempting that I haven't considered or run into yet? Can
> > someone from IBM comment on this?  There is no way that I can take the
> > risk of upgrading my V2 server without first doing some testing of V3 in
> > something close to my production environment, and that means that V2 and
> > V3 must coexist on the same machine, albeit with separate databases and
> > storage pools.  I would prefer that they be able to run concurrently, but
> > I would settle for being able to run them one at a time.
>
> Just copy the relevant message files from your test machine where ADSM
> V3 was installed (/usr/lib/nls/msg/en_US/...) to an own directory in
> /usr/lib/nls/msg (e.g. /usr/lib/nls/msg/adsmtest) and set the LANGUAGE
> value in dsmserv.opt to this value (LANGUAGE adsmtest). Then make a link
> in the locale directory /usr/lib/nls/loc to let adsmtest point to your
> standard locale (we used adsmtest -> en_US ).
>
> - Rolf
>
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