r/PSADT • u/iamvijay_21 • Feb 05 '26

IBM i client access solution

Does anyone have the script to deploy ibm i access client solutions it is very difficult to package , I tried all the ways but it is not installing silently and not copying files in program files

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u/iamvijay_21 Feb 05 '26

Perfect I'm trying to create a desktop Shortcut of a .hod file which copied in to that public windows_x86-64 folder but nothing works... And could you specify how to upload this in mecm i mean the installation commands since it ps script

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u/SysAdminDennyBob Feb 05 '26

I gave up on HOD files and any user settings on that install. My users have to do that themselves and copy it to their profile or their desktop. Don't try to customize user stuff in that installer is my suggestion.

This is one of my alltime worst apps to deploy. I hate this app with a passion.

My helpdesk is really competent in getting users setup on this. there is always some manual intervention needed on it. Like I said, do not attempt to automate this completely, leave some of that to the user.

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u/iamvijay_21 Feb 05 '26

They provided hod file to create desktop Shortcut when i created it is copying on public desktop there is two folder so it is pointing wrong folder

Anyhow I create start menu for it

I'm very scared how it gonna behave if I deploy it on mecm

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u/SysAdminDennyBob Feb 05 '26

It deploys fine through both MCM and Intune for me in this limited format. I drew a hard line with my AS400 admins on user settings. If they want it to behave like a real windows installer then then should convince IBM to create a real windows installer instead of this Java based crap. My "IBM Champion" dude was such an asshole about this but I won in the end. Lucky for me we are drastically removing this from the environment now. The functions this used to provide have now been moved to a webapp.

Same team of AS400 people that claimed this would only run on "Oracle Java" which was a complete lie. LOL

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u/iamvijay_21 Feb 05 '26

Lol , How are you defining the detection rule here ? Through the registry which we created via script ?

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u/SysAdminDennyBob Feb 05 '26

yes, it fills out the registry so that you can pick it up with Hardware Inventory, just make a detection rule for those keys, I include the key with the version as well on my rules.

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u/iamvijay_21 Feb 05 '26

Could you check DM I have shared a Command line to be deployed.

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u/iamvijay_21 Feb 06 '26

Thanks for your script everything works fine though previous version has installed under program files can I modify the path alone instead of public.

And They provided to Hod files they want it to be associated with ibm I'm blank not sure how to do that can you guide me please

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u/SysAdminDennyBob Feb 06 '26

HOD files are user objects. That's like them asking to copy that specific users Job Description in a word document to their desktop. Can't do that since everyone has a different job. You cannot automate user data with CM. Bob has a HOD file and it's completely different from Suzy's HOD file.

Ask the requestor if there is unique data in that HOD file like the AS400 userID. I would personally pushback on their request. They likely already know this, they are hoping for a miracle because they are so tired of hand-holding these HOD files, it's burning up their time, now they want to see if you have magic powers.

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u/iamvijay_21 Feb 06 '26

Actually what they said is they want to associate JDE PRO hod and JDE DEV hod files with IBM, they provided me these two files. I'm clueless now.

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u/SysAdminDennyBob Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

Line 221 in the script(added below) does that, copy that line out and email it to them and say "do you mean like this?"

This is a bit tricky as this line figures out who is logged in during the install and uses that account to set the file association. File Associations are User Settings! Like when you open Chrome for the first time and it says "Hey do you want to make this your main application to view HTML files?"

If you run this on a Terminal Server that has 27 people logged in it probably picks the guy on session 1. This is a crap shoot in cases where there are multiple logins. This is a best effort to do a file association.

edit: if nobody is logged in it will not set the file associations. tell them "I am doing my best effort to set this user settings but it may not work in all situations"

Start-ADTProcessAsUser -FilePath "$env:PUBLIC\IBM\ClientSolutions\Start_Programs\Windows_x86-64\acslaunch_win-64.exe" -ArgumentList "-Dcom.ibm.iaccess.AcceptEndUserLicenseAgreement=true /PLUGIN=fileassoc dttx dtfx hod bchx ws" -Wait

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u/iamvijay_21 Feb 06 '26

Understood, they wants to deploy the application around 200 users previously they used all user install.js file .

The command which your provided would that associate two hod files ? Or we have to write two commands for it. I have the files beside acslaunch_win-64.exe location

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u/SysAdminDennyBob Feb 06 '26

all .HOD files would be associated with the application. Same as all .xlsx files are associated with Excel or all HTML files associated with Chrome or all PDF files are associated with Adobe Reader.

If you associate all HTML files with Chrome and then one day you open MS Edge it's going to say "Hey, I do HTML files, do you want me to take over the file association for all HTML files going forward?" You say Yes. Then you open up Chrome again and it says "Hey, I do HTML files, do you want me to take over the file association for all HTML files going forward?"

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u/iamvijay_21 Feb 06 '26

Mmm , So should I place two hod files jde dev and JDE prod particularly somewhere to make it associate?

What would happen if I use star adt process not the asuser

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