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How to change the default rhapsody.exe.ini for multiple users

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Question

How do you change the default IBM Rational Rhapsody rhapsody.exe.ini for multiple users?

Cause

Each time you start Rational Rhapsody, the ~/.mw directory is created. This directory contains the rhapsody.exe.ini file which in turn contains specific settings for the running instance of Rhapsody.

Occasionally an administrator may need to alter this file.

To do this, it is necessary to look more closely at how Rhapsody is started on Linux.

Answer

The rhp_env script:

When you execute RhapsodyInCpp, RhapsodyInC..., the rhp_env script is called just before starting Rhapsody.

This script checks if the ~/.mw directory exists (as well as setting up several aspects of the Linux and mainwin environment).

If the script determines the directory does not exist, it creates the directory and the rhapsody.exe.ini file and defines the main body of the ini file.

Any changes made here will precipitate to each user of this server.

Example rhp_env script:


# If you don't have a windows/rhapsody.exe.ini

  # Create one with a port for Animation in it!!

  echo "[General]" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "#OMROOT=$RHPDIR" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "RY_LICENSE_FILE=$RHPDIR/flexlm/license.dat" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "ProjectsDirectory=$RHPDIR" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "AdditinalPath=" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "OMHELPROOT=$OMHELPROOT" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "OMDOCROOT=$OMDOCROOT" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  # Make up a unique socket number for animation"

  # ID=`/xpg4/bin/id -u`

  ID=0

  ID=`expr $ID + 6423` # 6423 is our standard socket..

  echo "AnimationPortNumber=$ID" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

 

          echo "DefaultEdition=Developer" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

          echo "DefaultLanguage=C++" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "#RY_LICENSE_STR=" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "[RER]" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "RER_ENABLED=TRUE" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "RER_DIR=$RER_DIR" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "[Tip]" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  echo "StartUp=1" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  if [ $IsEclipseSelected = "TRUE" ]

  then

    echo "[IDE]" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

    echo "EclipsePath=/usr/eclipse/eclipse" >>$HOME/$MWUSERDIR/rhapsody.exe.ini

  fi  



The helper scripts:

Each Rhapsody add-on is defined in the helper section by individual helper scripts.



if [ $IsXMIToolkitSelected = "TRUE" ]

  then

    sh $RHPDIR/Sodius/XMI_Toolkit/addHelpers.sh

    fi  

    if [ $IsGatewaySelected = "TRUE" ]

  then

    pushd $RHPDIR/Gateway/bin.pclinux

       perl add_gateway_helper.pl

       popd

    fi

    if [ $IsTCSelected = "TRUE" ]

  then

    sh $RHPDIR/TestConductor/adapt_ini.sh $RHPDIR

    fi    


These subsequent scripts can also be edited to alter the finished rhapsody.exe.ini file.

[{"Product":{"code":"SSB2MU","label":"IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU059","label":"IBM Software w\/o TPS"},"Component":"Installation","Platform":[{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"}],"Version":"7.4;7.4.0.1;7.5;7.5.0.1;7.5.1;7.5.1.1;7.5.2;7.5.2.1;7.5.3;7.5.3.1;7.5.3.2;7.6;7.6.0.1;7.6.1","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB59","label":"Sustainability Software"}}]

Product Synonym

Rational Rhapsody

Document Information

Modified date:
27 May 2022

UID

swg21391638

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