Experiment: Moving the OS/2 Directory Structure
Warning: This is an experiment. OS/2 and eComStation may became unstable.
This experiment is for the people that will like to move some directories that are installed by default on the root drive.
OS/2 and eComStation has the following directories installed on the root:
- DMISL (IBM OS/2 DMTF Service Layer)
- IBMCOM
- IBMGSK (IBMGSK)
- IBMGSK40
- IBMGSK50
- IBMLAN
- LANGUAGE (Language Directory)
- MMOS2
- MPTN
- MUGLIB
- PSFONTS
- TCPIP
So let's see what happens:
IBMGSK
IBMGSK is a set of libraries for RSA encription for some programs. It is hard to know if it is ok to move them since (as far as I know) they are only usefull for some programns like IBM Personal Communicator, IBM HTTP Server and maybe IBM DB2 on OS/2.
So moving it for example to \OS2\SYSTEM does not gives problem in this experiment.
Config.sys Changes:
- LIBPATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK50\LIB;C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK40\LIB;C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK\LIB;
- PATH=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK50\BIN;C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK40\BIN;C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK\BIN;
- SET IKEYMAN40_HOME=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK40
- SET IKEYMAN50_HOME=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK50
- SET IKEYMAN_HOME=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\IBMGSK
DMISL
This directory which seems to be the IBM OS/2 DMTF Service Layer and used by the "Problem Determination Tools", looks that there is not problematic to move. But I'm not a "Problem Determination Tools" expert.
So moving it for example to \OS2\SYSTEM does not gives problem in this experiment.
But notice that since some utilities are running in the backgound the SLDB.DMI file can not be moved, but it will get created automatically on the next boot according the DMIPATH path location.
Config.sys Changes:
- SET DMIPATH=C:OS2\SYSTEM\DMISL\BIN