Globalization and i5/OS software installation

 

This information introduces the basic concepts of installing and upgrading national languages on your system.

The primary language is the national language that is installed on the system as the default language used to display and print information. The primary language is also used to service the system.

If you are planning to change your primary language only and not upgrade at the same time, use the manual installation process. To determine which installation process will work best for your situation, compare reasons in Software installation process.

If the primary language is uppercase English (2938 or 2950), type uppercase characters when you respond to system messages.

Secondary languages are one or more additional national languages that can be installed on the system to display and print information.

For V5R4, you can order additional primary language media (feature code 82xx) and receive the standard set and keyed set for each of those languages. Secondary languages, if ordered, come on separate optical media.

The i5/OS Information Center topic i5/OS Globalization contains more information about planning for and using national languages on your system.

Feature codes for your primary or secondary languages are listed in the topic, Feature codes for national language version.

• Considerations for changing a primary language
  This information describes the requirements for changing your i5/OS primary language.

• Considerations for installing additional secondary languages
  To be able to install an i5/OS secondary language, several requirements must be met.

 

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Concepts for software installation