Specifying Alternate PS_CFG

Specifying Alternate PS_CFG_HOME Locations

The value of the PS_CFG_HOME environment variable determines where PSADMIN installs a domain. If you accept the default location of PS_CFG_HOME, this environment variable does not need to be specified. However, if you intend to install your domains in a different location, you need to override the default by setting the PS_CFG_HOME environment variable prior to launching PSADMIN.

For UNIX and Linux, you can:

Set the PS_CFG_HOME environment variable in the psconfig.sh file. However, if you hard code the PS_CFG_HOME environment variable in psconfig.sh other users will not be able to use the same PS_HOME for different PS_CFG_HOMEs. All users of the same PS_HOME would invoke the same psconfig.sh, and therefore see their domains in the same PS_CFG_HOME.
Set PS_CFG_HOME in the startup script for the platform/shell, resulting in the automatic inheritance of the environment variable when a user signs on.

For Windows, you can set PS_CFG_HOME through the Control Panel in the user variables interface, or issue a SET command prior to starting PSADMIN. For example,

C:\>SET PS_CFG_HOME=n:\psftdomains
C:\>cd pt850\appserv
C:\pt850\appserv>psadmin

In this case, any domains created during this PSADMIN session would be created in n:\psftdomains\appserv.

Note:

If you elect to operate in the same fashion as previous PeopleTools releases (where the configuration files and the binary files exist within the same directory structure) set PS_CFG_HOME = PS_HOME.