Installing the SAP Client when SAP runs on AIX

To allow SAP to issue the InfoPrint Manager commands, you must install the InfoPrint Manager SAP client on every SAP server where an SAP application server will issue the commands. This includes every application server with an SWP managing R/3 devices that have been configured to use access method L for sending jobs to InfoPrint Manager. If you have configured your SAP R/3 system to use alternate servers, you must repeat these installation tasks on the alternate servers as well.

To install the SAP client for AIX on your SAP application servers, use this procedure:

  1. Log into the AIX system as root.
  2. Insert the InfoPrint Manager: Common Clients DVD-ROM, LCD4-5642 into the DVD-ROM reader.
  3. Open a terminal window.

    If you are using the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), you can open a terminal window by clicking on the terminal icon contained in the front panel. (The front panel is the task bar that appears at the bottom of the screen.) By default, the terminal icon is contained in a pop-up menu above the text editor icon that appears on the front panel.

  4. The first time you run the Installer, follow this procedure:
    1. Type this on the command line:
      smit cdrfs
    2. Select Add a CDROM File System from the list of choices presented.
    3. Click the List button and select your DVD-ROM device name (cd0, for example).
    4. Type this in the MOUNT POINT field:
      /cdrom
    5. Click OK. The running person will raise his arms to indicate success. If he instead falls down and you see crfs: 0506-909 /cdrom file system already exists, do not interpret this as a failure. (The existing /cdrom file system should be usable.)
    6. Press the F12 key to exit SMIT.
  5. Type this on the command line:
    mount /cdrom
  6. The SAP Client package (ipr.sapclient) is installed at the command line by specifying setup —x.

    During the course of the install, you are prompted to specify values for both PDHOST and PD_SOCKET.

    Note:
  1. The SAP Client package cannot be installed if other ipr* filesets reside on an SAP application server.
  2. If your installation uses older printers (for example, 4000 printers instead of InfoPrint 4100 printers), the GOCA support can cause the printers to print at less than rated speed. If your applications do not require GOCA support features, such as box shading, you might want to improve performance by turning off the GOCA support. For instructions on turning off this support after installing the SAP Client, see Adding box shading values to printed output.

Once you have completed this procedure, follow the directions for updating the SAP profile to activate the SAP Print Command and define SAP devices that use access method L in Configuring your SAP system to use the InfoPrint Manager Client command.

Parent topic: InfoPrint Manager non-OMS support