Hi Matthias, thank you for your comment. However, that was not what I wanted to know. Maybe my request was not clear enough.
I would like to integrate the SAP DB _installation process_ within another installation routine for one of my software products that utilizes SAP DB. To accomplish this, I need to know how to a) either feed the SDBINST program with default input and handle errors or b) what to do when a) is not possible. My thoughts regarding b) run along the line 1) Make a default installation 2) save all files and the registry keys to someplace 3) For installation, copy all the files to the clients computer 4) create the required registry entries, taking care to set the right folders 5) enter the sql16 etc. lines in windows' services file 6) register the x_server The next step would then be what you suggested, to create the database instance. Any ideas anybody? best regards, Axel If you're intereseted, here is the long story: I have a Software Product that uses some Database System as data storage. Very inventive, isn't it :) Personally I prefer SAP DB, because it has all the features/benefits I need (Multi Platform Support, Trigger, DbProcs, low administration, ... you name it. We all know why we love our SAP DB.). Unfortunately my Clients don't always see it that way, and when I want to install (or ask their admin to install) SAP DB, I am often confronted by "SAP DB? Why, we have this perfect ORACLE/MSSQL/ DB2/SYBASE Database. You have to use this." Haha. Converting all those tables, triggers, stored procedures and supporting them for the next hundred years is something I can do without. By integrating the SAP DB installation into one big installation process, it just becomes part of the whole package. No questions, no problems. And we really have only the best experiences with our SAP DB installations for more than two years now. I cannot say this from Oracle or SQL Server. Great praise and thanks to the people in Berlin! > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Matthias Griem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 12:28 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: embedded SAP DB / unattended installation > > Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 09:17 schrieb Axel Busch: > > Hi, > > > > i would like to use SAP DB in a kind of embedded environment. > > Does SAP DB provide a method of unattended/automatic installation? > > > > I checked the installation log for windows. Is copying the > > files, setting the windows registry keys and adding the entries > > to the services file really enough? > > How about linux? > > install SAP DB on a Linux-box have a look in this file: > > /opt/sapdb/testdb74/create_demo_db.sh > > > with repmcli in shell-scripts you can do nearly everything ;-) > > ------snip-------- > > Prog="repmcli -u ${DBuser},${DBpass} -d ${DB} -n ${DBhost}" > > INSTROOT=/opt/sapdb/depend74 > PATH=/opt/sapdb/depend74/bin:$PATH > export PATH > > echo "create Tables, manipulate Data, etc ..." > ${Prog} -b file_with_sql_statements_inside.sql > > -----snap--------- > > > best regards > > Matthias > > > -- > MaxDB Discussion Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
