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, GUI-based installation, open a new
command prompt window and issue the following command line.
- Navigate to the \IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse folder.
For installation in the English language, enter IBMIM.exe
-record response.xml -skipInstall <IM_data_dir>...where
response.xml is the silent installation file to be generated and <IM_data_dir> is
a new directory generated for the Installation Manager to write and
store data into.
For example:
IBMIM.exe -record
response.xml -skipInstall C:\SterlingInstallData
For
installation in another, supported language, enter: IBMIM.exe
-record response.xml -skipInstall <IM_data_dir> - nl <locale_code>
For
example:
IBMIM.exe -record response.xml -skipInstall
C:\SterlingInstallData -nl zh_TW
- Navigate to the /IBM/Installation
Manager/eclipse folder.
Enter ./IBMIM -record response.xml
-skipInstall <IM_data_dir>...where <silent_filename>.xml
is the silent installation file to be generated and <IM_data_dir> is
a new directory generated for the Installation Manager to write and
store data into.
For example:
./IBMIM -record
response.xml -skipInstall $HOME/SterlingInstallData
For
installation in another, supported language, enter: ./IBMIM
-record response.xml -skipInstall <IM_data_dir> - nl <locale_code>
For
example:
./IBMIM -record response.xml -skipInstall $HOME/SterlingInstallData
-nl zh_TW
- Review the installation packages to be installed.
- Review and accept the license agreement.
- Accept the default location for the shared resources directory,
or browse to a new location.
- Accept the default location for Installation Manager directory,
or enter a different location.
- Review and accept the package group to be installed and
the installation directory, or browse to a new location.
- Select the languages for which you want to install the IBM® Sterling
Warehouse Management System language
pack translations.
Note: By default, the English language
is selected.
- Select the appropriate features to install. More information
about each feature is provided under Details.
Note: By
default, the Product Files feature is selected.
- Select the appropriate deployment type for IBM Sterling
Warehouse Management System 9.4.
- Production.
- Non Production.
- Enter the location and name of the JDK home directory.
Copying the JDK to your installation directory is selected by default.
If you do not want a copy of the JDK made under your installation
directory, clear the checkbox.
- If you enabled the checkbox "Enable Sharded Database Mode"
earlier, the next screen shows a check box at the top, "Enable mixed
database vendor support." In 9.4 release, Sterling Warehouse Management System does
not support mixed database vendor. Ignore this check box and select
your database vendor Oracle or DB2® from
the list. Click Add Jars to browse to the JDBC driver file for Oracle
or DB2. Repeat to add the license
file for DB2 (required). Then
enter the information for the remaining database fields.
- If doing a nonsharded installation, enter information
for the following fields:
To test the connection to the database, click Validate Connection.
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 database installation, click
Add Jars to browse to the JDBC driver file. Browse to the Jars for
Oracle or DB2. Repeat to add
the license file for DB2 (required).
For each shard type, you can select the button
Reuse existing
database shard configuration, which auto-fills the required fields
with 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.
Note: For Sterling Warehouse Management System Master
and Transaction connections should point to the same database schema.
- Database user name
- Database password/Confirm database password
- Database catalog name
- Database host name (or IP address)
- Database port number
- Database schema name
Note: The default schema names are always
the same as the user name, except that the schema names are all uppercase.
This applies to both nonsharded and sharded scenarios.
Note: For Sterling Warehouse Management System the
Master and Transaction must point to the same schema.
For each shard, you can test the connection to the database by
clicking Validate Connection. If a message saying the connection
failed is displayed, verify the information you entered in all fields
and try validating again.
- On the Database Details screen:
- If using DB2, choose
whether to use multibyte support.
- If using Oracle, there are no additional database properties
to configure; click Next.
- Enter the ADDITIONAL_ANT_JAVA_TASK_ARGS and ADDITIONAL_ANT_COMPILER_TASK_ARGS
memory parameter settings for your operating system.
- Click 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. Click Finish. You can also
view the installation log from this screen.
Note: If the installed_data
directory is not removed by the post installation cleanup process,
you can delete it. It is only used for installation.
- Exit Installation Manager.
- You now have a response.xml file
from which you can run a silent installation.