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If the log file needs to be written to a different location, contact our Service team for help.
"Is changing %HOMEPATH% an acceptable way to adjust the location of install_acs_log.txt in your environment?"
In our environment, a personal network drive for each user is set to %HOMEDRIVE%. It would be troublesome to change this. %HOMEPATH% goes directly to C:\, but this is not ideal either, though it is better than %HOMEDRIVE%. Still, is there something that could be done so that this log file could simply save itself in a location of my choosing? That would be much preferred, as i could have it save to where the ACS program files are located, as opposed to the C drive or a Users Personal Network Drive.
The placement of the install_acs_log.txt file is based on two Windows environment variables: %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% For new installations using either install_acs_32.js or install_acs_64.js, the product files are also placed relative to those environment variables. If you are using either install_acs_32_allusers.js or install_acs_64_allusers.js, the placement of the product files are relative to \Users\Public, but the install_acs_log.txt file is still placed relative to %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH%. Is changing %HOMEPATH% an acceptable way to adjust the location of install_acs_log.txt in your environment?
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - IBM i Access Family
Operating system - IBM i
Source - None
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Application Development
Operating system - IBM i
Source - None