Several clients have asked me how to prevent their older Easycom components from loading, now that they’ve migrated from the Easycom toolkit to the new open source IBM i Zend toolkit.
Here are instructions based on suggestions from Rod Flohr of Zend Support. These tips have worked for me on Zend Server 5.6 for IBM i and will probably work on older releases as well.
Prevent Easycom extension from being loaded by PHP
1. Go to the Zend Server administration interface in your browser: http://yourIBMi:10088/ZendServer/.
2. Navigate to the Server Setup -> Extensions tab.
3. Find Easycom on the list of extensions. If the extension is On, click the “Turn off” link on the same line to turn it off.
4. You should see this message: “The extension ‘Easycom’ will be turned off after restarting your PHP”. You don’t need to restart PHP now if you plan to do so later, at the end of “Prevent I5_COMD daemon…” (below).
5. Also look for an extension called ‘pdo_easycom,’ which you may see if you had downloaded or purchased the Easycom product directly from the vendor. If it is there, turn it off as well.
Prevent I5_COMD daemon from starting in ZENDSVR
If you see a job named I5_COMD running in the ZENDSVR subsystem, but no longer use the Easycom toolkit, you may wish to follow these steps:
STEP 1: Rename the startup program that launches I5_COMD. From a 5250 command line:
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RNMOBJ OBJ(ZENDSVR/ZCCSTREACD) OBJTYPE(*PGM) NEWOBJ(ZCCSTREACX) |
This renaming will “hide” I5_COMD’s startup program from Zend Server’s startup procedure. (Don’t worry—the “missing object” message is monitored—no errors.)
STEP 2: Stop and start Zend Server from the menu. From a 5250 command line:
Use option “2. Stop Zend Server Subsystem”
Verify that subsystem ZENDSVR has ended and that there are no jobs named ZENDSVR in the QHTTPSVR subsystem.
Next, use option “1. Start Zend Server Subsystem.”
Verify that subsystem QHTTPSVR is running and contains the usual ZENDSVR jobs. Verify that subsystem ZENDSVR is started, but without I5_COMD inside.
