PMC recipient procedure

PMC recipient is fully configured by the Infor Installation Wizard during the installation of the base Infor products such as LN and Infor Enterprise Server.

Infor Installation Wizard and PMC

The PMC Tool has a seamless integration with the Infor Installation Wizard. If you install updates using the Infor Installation Wizard, the wizard activates the PMC Tool in the background.

You can use both the PMC Tool and the Infor Installation Wizard to install updates in an existing environment. Both tools serve their own specific goal in the update installation process.

The Infor Installation Wizard is primarily for installing these components:

  • Initial master media
  • Feature Packs

The PMC Tool is primarily for installing these components:

  • Individual solutions
  • Collections
  • Patches

You can also install individual solutions, collections, and patches using the Infor Installation Wizard. This can have these drawbacks:

  • The installation process is more labor intensive, more mouse clicks.
  • You can miss essential information during the installation process. The so-called pre-installation and post-installation instructions are not presented in an active way.
  • The Infor Installation Wizard installs all solutions present in the staging area or server. You cannot select a subset of solutions from the available solutions.

For these reasons, to install individual solutions, collections and patches, ensure to use the PMC Tool directly.

On the other hand, you can install Feature Packs directly using the PMC Tool. After you have installed the Feature Pack you must also perform several additional steps manually. These steps include running the , and sessions. If you use the Infor Installation Wizard, all required steps are executed automatically in the installation process. In addition, the Infor Installation Wizard offers some extra features that can be useful during installation of Feature Packs. For example, the automatic creation of new VRC structures and creation of Package Combinations in which the Feature Pack can be installed.

You cannot perform the initial installation of initial master media using the PMC Tool. To perform this installation, you must use the Infor Installation Wizard. During installation of the master media, the Infor Installation Wizard initializes the PMC Tool. The environment is immediately ready for installing updates. You can also initialize the PMC Tool manually with the PMC Tool itself.