'MB initialization error, check codepage.ini file' starting Gen application

Products

• Gen
• Gen - Host Encyclopedia
• Gen - Run Time Distributed
• Gen - Workstation Toolset

Issue/Introduction

After copying a Gen 8.6 deployed application deployed application from one Windows server to another Windows server and starting the deployed Gen distributed application from the copied to server, receive the error: 'MB initialization error, check codepage.ini file'.

Environment

Gen 8.6 

Windows

Resolution

On this distributed Windows server machine be sure to set the IEFH environment variable to the Gen files runtime location on this machine.  Along with this, set the PATH and Gen86 environment variables to the folder that contains the Gen runtime files in order to resolve the problem.