Copying profile information

Answer

Several APL2 components maintain profile information. The information is stored in the following section of the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IBM\APL2\2.0

To copy APL2 profile information from one machine to another, you can export the data from the first machine's registry to a file, copy the file to the other machine, and then import the data into that machine's registry.

Windows includes a program named reg.exe that can be used to access the registry from the command line. reg.exe can be found in this location:

c:\windows\system32\reg.exe

To use reg.exe to export the APL2 profile data to a file named c:\apl2.reg, type this command in a DOS command prompt window:

reg export hkcu\Software\IBM\APL2\2.0 c:\apl2.reg

To use reg.exe to import the APL2 profile data, type this command:

If reg.exe is not available, the registry editor can also be used to export and import registry data.

Windows includes two versions of the registry editor either of which can be used to export and import data. They can be found in these locations:

c:\windows\regedit.exe

c:\windows\system32\regedt32.exe

To use the registry editor to export the data, follow this procedure:

• Start the registry editor
• Navigate to the APL2 profile information
• Select the 2.0 key
• Select Export... from the File pull-down menu
• Enter the file location and name you want to use
• Press the Save button

To use the registry editor to import data, follow this procedure:

• Start the registry editor
• Select Import... from the File pull-down menu
• Enter the file location and name and press the Open button

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