Copy OnDemand Client software to the server

Any files (and subdirectories of files) that you store there are copied along with the standard OnDemand Client files when a user installs the client from the server to a workstation. You can distribute the following types of user-defined files:

• Registry files. These files are imported into the Registry on the user's workstation.
• Windows files. These files are copied to the base Windows directory tree on the user's workstation.
• Miscellaneous client files. These files are copied to the\Program Files\IBM\OnDemand Clients\V10.5 directory tree on the user's workstation. You can use this feature to replace (overwrite) files supplied by IBM®. When a user runs the Setup program from the server, it first copies the files supplied by IBM to the workstation. The Setup program then copies any user-defined files to the workstation. If a user-defined file has the same name as a file supplied by IBM, the IBM-supplied file will be overwritten by the user-defined file. For example, suppose you need to modify the AFP character set definition file (CSDEF.FNT) to map fonts your documents were created with to fonts that can be displayed on the workstation. You can automatically distribute an updated version of the file to your users by storing the modified CSDEF.FNT file in the CUSTOM\FILES\FONT directory on the distribution server. When a user installs the client from the server, the Setup program first copies the CSDEF.FNT file supplied by IBM to the workstation. The Setup program then copies the CSDEF.FNT file you modified to the workstation.