Hi Jim;

Yes – sometimes it is not easy to open the FTP port in the firewall when you do remote installations, so for that reason we also have put a "manual installation" into IceBreak. You can just follow the steps below taken from the "IceBreak Programmers Guide".

If you have problems with the standard installation program for IceBreak you can use the following method to install it manually:

• Start up the normal installation process as always. Press OK (image 1)
• Press the Start and files needed will be unzipped and places in the directory entered into ”Extract to” (image 2)
• After the extract has finished the following panel will show up. Press the Cancel and Yes to leave the installation program (image 3 and 4)
• Locate the Directory where you just extracted the installation files to (image 5)
• Copy the “IceBreak.savf” file to a directory in the IFS on the target System. Use Windows explorer or the IBMi Navigator (image 6)

Sign on to a 5250 session and run the following commands as *SECOFR:

CPYFRMSTMF FROMSTMF('/Mydir/IceBreak.savf') TOMBR('/qsys.lib/qtemp.lib/IceBreak.file') MBROPT(*REPLACE)
RSTLIB SAVLIB(BLUEICE) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(QTEMP/ICEBREAK) RSTLIB(INSTBOX)
CHGCMD CMD(INSTBOX/INSTALL) PRDLIB(INSTBOX)

If needed you can change the installation parameters, you can do so by change the data area call INSTBOX/INSTALLDFT. The layout of that data area looks like:
 
Pos. 1  length 10  - The IceBreak installation library  
Pos. 11  length 10 – The database library
Pos. 21 length 128 – The IceBreak root directory
Pos. 149 length 128 – The ADMIN root directory
Pos. 278  length 10 – ADMIN server name 
Pos. 288   length 5 – ADMIN port number
Pos. 293   length 1 – ‘1’ indicate that the IceBreak menu should be duplicated into library QGPL 
 
The installation program is now ready to be executed with the following command: 

INSTBOX/INSTALL

Best regards,
Niels Liisberg