Uninstalling Profound.js

Owned by David Russo
Last updated: Aug 16, 2023 by Jessica Tomkins
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Uninstalling a Profound.js Instance

  1. Open an interactive shell or command prompt. On IBM i, an interactive PASE shell can be opened by running the command CALL QP2TERM in a TN5250 session.


  2. Navigate to the instance installation directory, for example:

    cd /profoundjs


  3. Use NPM to uninstall:

    npm uninstall profoundjs

Uninstalling Profound.js Instance STRTCPSVR/ENDTCPSVR Configuration (IBM i)

Remove the instance configuration directory /profoundjs-base/instances/INSTANCE_NAME, for example:

RMDIR DIR('/profoundjs-base/instances/profoundjs') SUBTREE(*ALL)

Uninstalling Profound.js Connector (IBM i)

Delete the Profound.js Connector installation library, for example:

DLTLIB LIB(PROFOUNDJS)

Uninstalling Profound.js Base Components (IBM i)

Do not remove the Profound.js Base Components unless you are completely uninstalling all Profound.js instances and all Profound.js Connector libraries. 



  1. Delete the /profoundjs-base directory:

    RMDIR DIR('/profoundjs-base') SUBTREE(*ALL)


  2. Delete the PJS_BASE library:

    DLTLIB LIB(PJS_BASE)


  3. Delete the PROFOUNDJS user profile: 

    DLTUSRPRF USRPRF(PROFOUNDJS)


  4. Remove the *PJS TCP server type:

    RMVTCPSVR SVRSPCVAL(*PJS)