Vantage StoragePoint web client 14.1.5 installation failed with WCSetupDefault.properties: binary file matches

Products

• Vantage Storage Resource Manager

Issue/Introduction

Vantage StoragePoint web client installation failed with the following error while installing the Vantage StoragePoint 14.1.5 web client.
: >./myshell.sh                                             
grep: /uss-dir/WCSetupDefault.properties: binary file matches               
grep: /uss-dir/WCSetupDefault.properties: binary file matches               
tmpdir =                                                                      
javahome =                                                                    
JAVA_HOME = /xxxxjava-directory                                                  
The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly                   
This environment variable is needed to run this installer

Cause

The reason for installation failure was because the customer has WCSetupDefault.properties file in binary format, just after unpaxing the pax file. It is showing as below:

$ file WCSetupDefault.properties
WCSetupDefault.properties:  binary data

Resolution

Use the change tag to text command like this on your OMVS inside the install directory, where the WCSetupDefault.properties file exists

chtag -tc IBM-1047 WCSetupDefault.properties

After the above command is issued, check if the file is showing as text file or not by issuing the following command.

file WCSetupDefault.properties

It should display as follows

Continue with the installation steps.

Additional Information

Please note that this issue will be fixed in Vantage StoragePoint web client 14.1.6 version.