About Software Setup

ActiveLink Directory

The Setup program will guide you through the installation steps. You may accept or modify the ActiveLink system folder location.

If installing to an existing ActiveLink folder, then modified directories will be preserved, but a backup of the data and database folders is always recommended.

System Folders

The following folders are part of a standard ActiveLink installation and are the same structure on Unix, iSeries and Windows configurations.

• Used to Uninstall ActiveLink
• Do not modify

System programs and Studio log files.

• See Configuration Settings
• Configuration files may be modified
• Studio and Windows Service Log files

• Used internally for optimization.
• Do not modify.

• Contains solutions folders.
• Sub-folders may be added.
• Do not remove, but add freely.

• Studio saves to here by default
• Solutions Server loads solutions from here by default
• Sub-Folders may be added

• See Transaction Database
• Clear using bin/cleardatabase command.
• Can be updated via Command Shell or Monitor Console.

• Defaults to current installed version
• Newer Help documents may be updated
• Offline version of ActiveLink Help

• Used by everything
• Included with Setup
• Do not modify

• ActiveLink Java Libraries
• Custom Java JAR files will get added to class path after Server restart
• See Java Scripting