No more letting your friends and customers typing commands and transferring savefiles using FTP or other tools in order to install software on the IBM i. Simply use iInstall Reborn Creator to create an installation package contained in a executable JAR file that you send to your customers.

iInstall Reborn is a utility that allows you to create software installation packages that your customers and friends easily can install on their IBM i using a wizard style interface, just by clicking a few buttons 🙂

Requirement

iInstall Reborn Creator and iInstall Reborn Installer are Java applications and they require Java 1.8 or newer is installed on the computers where they are executed.

Download

There are two download options, select the one that matches the version of OS/400 that runs on your IBM i, iSeries, AS/400. Both download options consist of iInstall Reborn and the JT400.jar file, which is needed to communicate with the IBM i.

The download consist of a ZIP file containing the folder ‘iInstall Reborn’. Extract the folder and it’s sub-folder to the disc on your PC. For Windows® users: You should extract the folder either to the root of the drive, or to the ‘My Documents’/’Documents’ folder. You must not extract the folder to the ‘Program Files’/’Program Files (x86)’ folder. The reason for this is, that iInstall Reborn create a property file in the folder, and Windows will not permit that in sub-folders in ‘Program Files’/’Program Files (x86)’.

By downloading this utility, you agree to the conditions written in the paragraph ‘Liability’.

When you have downloaded iInstall Reborn it is fully functional.

» Download for use with OS/400 versions from V5R2 and above.

» Download for use with OS/400 versions before, not including, V5R2.

Documentation

You will find all the documentation for iInstall Reborn here.

Watch the video to see for yourself how easy it is to distribute objects in a IBM i library:

Terms

Support is supplied by the use of the support forum. No direct mails, no phone calls!

iInstall Reborn is delivered ‘as is’. Neither Jesper Wachs nor anyone else who has been involved in the creation, production or delivery of this product shall be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential or incidental damages (including damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, and the like) arising out of the use or inability to use such product even if Jesper Wachs has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

It is entirely up to the user/buyer to ensure that the use of the software complies with laws of the countries where the software is used. Jesper Wachs cannot be held responsible for violation of any given country’s laws on cryptography software use.

Liability

This utility is delivered ‘as is’. Neither Jesper Wachs nor anyone else who has been involved in the creation, production or delivery of this product shall be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential or incidental damages (including damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information, and the like) arising out of the use or inability to use such product even if Jesper Wachs has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

© 2016 – 2019 by Jesper Wachs. All rights reserved.

Why the name iInstall Reborn?

I introduced the first version this tool back in 1997(!!). At the time it was called ASInstall and was developed in Visual Basic V2. At the time diskettes was the media to use for distribution. In 1998 I moved the development of ASInstall to Borland’s Deplhi V1 (Object Pascal).

When AS/400 was renamed to iSeries in 2000, ASInstall was renamed to iInstall (i for iSeries) and the development was moved to Borland’s Delphi V4 as a 32bit application.

In 2011 I stopped the development of iInstall. In the summer of 2015, one of the previous customers of iInstall contacted me, asking for a new version. Eager to learn Java, I started out the development. Inspired by the name of the movie Johnny English Reborn, I decided to call this new version, developed in Java, for iInstall Reborn, which seemed like the right thing to do at the time 🙂