Before you begin
You must use IBM Installation Manager to perform a recorded
installation. If you have not already done so, download the IBM Installation
Manager now.
If you are upgrading from a previous release, stop
any running instances of the previous installation.
Close all
open programs and any command prompt windows.
Procedure
- To record a silent, text-based installation, open a command
prompt window and issue the following command line.
- Navigate to the \IBM\Installation
Manager\eclipse\tools folder.
For installation in
the English language, enter imcl.exe -c -record response.xml
-skipInstall <IM_data_dir>...where response.xml is
the silent installation file to be generated and <IM_data_dir> is
the directory generated for the Installation Manager to write and
store data into.
For example:
imcl.exe -c -record
response.xml -skipInstall C:\SterlingInstallData
For
installation in another, supported language, enter: imcl.exe
-c -record response.xml -skipInstall <IM_data_dir> -nl <locale_code>
For
example:
imcl.exe -c -record response.xml -skipInstall
C:\SterlingInstallData -nl zh_CN
- Navigate to the /IBM/Installation
Manager/eclipse/tools folder.
For installation in
the English language, enter: ./imcl -c -record response.xml
-skipInstall <IM_data_dir>...where response.xml
is the silent installation file to be generated and <IM_data_dir> is
the directory generated for the Installation Manager to write and
store data into.
For example:
./imcl -c -record
response.xml -skipInstall $HOME/SterlingInstallData
For
installation in another, supported language, enter: ./imcl
-c -record response.xml -skipInstall <IM_data_dir> -nl <locale_code>
For
example:
./imcl -c -record response.xml -skipInstall
$HOME/SterlingInstallData -nl zh_CN
- Follow the prompt to select Installation and press Enter.
- Select the Warehouse Management System packages to install
and press Enter.
- Select the current version for installation and press Enter.
- Press Enter on the confirmation screen to move to
the next screen.
- Accept the license agreements and press Enter.
- Choose a location for the Shared Resources directory. The
default is IBM\SDPShared. To choose a different directory, type M and
press Enter. Type the path and directory name and press Enter.
- Press Enter on the confirmation screen to move to
the next screen.
- Choose an installation location. The default is the IBM® directory. If you select a directory
that already exists, an error message is displayed. To choose a different
directory, type M and press Enter. Type the path and
name of the new directory and press Enter.
- Press Enter on the confirmation screen to move to
the next screen.
- Select the features to install:
- 1. Product Files - selected by default.
- 2. Enable Sharded Database Mode - Available for Advanced and
Enterprise Licenses only.
- 3. Enable Upgrade - Sharded upgrades work only on previously
sharded environments.
Make a selection and press Enter. After you have selected
one option, the prompt is displayed again. You can either choose another
option (2 or 3) or press Enter to accept the default (N) and
continue to the next step.
- Select the appropriate deployment type for IBM Sterling
Warehouse Management System 9.4
- Production.
- Non Production.
- Enter the path and name for the JDK home directory and
press Enter. This pathname should have no spaces.
- Choose whether to have the installer create a copy of the
JDK folders under your installation directory. The default is Yes
(create the copy). Press Enter to accept the default and continue.
If you do not want a copy of the JDK made, type N and press Enter.
- If you selected "Enable Sharded Database Mode" earlier,
the next prompt asks whether you want to "Enable mixed database vendor
support." In 9.4 release, Sterling Warehouse Management System does
not support mixed database vendor. Type the option number for the
database, DB2® or Oracle, and
press Enter.
- Enter the information for the remaining database fields,
depending on whether you chose nonsharded or sharded earlier:
- If doing a nonsharded installation, enter information
for the following fields:
To validate the database connection, type Y (validate
the connection), or N (do not attempt to connect). If a message saying
the connection failed is displayed, verify the information you entered
in all fields and try validating again.
- If doing a sharded installation, enter the location
and name of the JDBC driver file. You can add only two database driver
jars here. Browse to the Jars for Oracle or DB2. Type A to add the license file for DB2 (required). After adding the
license file and the prompt is displayed again, type D (done)
to continue to the next step.
For each shard type,
you can select the option to
Reuse existing database shard configuration,
which populates with the existing database information, or
Create
new database shard configuration, which prompts you to enter the
following database information for Statistics, Configuration, Master,
and Transaction connections. If you are using mixed database vendors,
you will also pick the database vendor type for each connection.
Note: For Sterling Warehouse Management System Master
and Transaction connections should point to the same database schema.
To validate the database connection for each shard, type Y (validate
the connection), or N (do not attempt to connect). If a message
saying the connection failed is displayed, verify the information
you entered in all fields and try validating again. Once all information
is entered for a shard, you can choose B (back) if you want
to change information, or choose N (next) to continue to the
next shard or step.
- If using DB2, choose
whether to enable database multibyte support (Y or N) and press Enter.
- Enter the ADDITIONAL_ANT_JAVA_TASK_ARGS memory parameter
settings for your operating system and press Enter.
- Enter the ADDITIONAL_ANT_COMPILER_TASK_ARGS memory parameter
settings for your operating system and press Enter. Press Enter again
to confirm your choices.
- Type G (Generate an Installation response file)
to have an XML file that contains the install prompts and your responses
created.
- When prompted, type the location and name for the file
and press Enter. Use "xml" as the file extension.
- Once a message saying that the file was successfully created
is displayed, press Enter. The previous screen is displayed
again, with the same options. This time, type I (Install) to
start the installation. A progress bar is displayed at
the bottom of the screen.
- When the installation is complete, a status screen is displayed.
- You now have a response.xml file from
which you can run a silent installation.