Installation worksheet

Use this worksheet as a single place to collect all the information you will need while doing an installation of IBM® Sterling Warehouse Management System.

Table 1. Installation worksheet
Description References Your Notes
Memory parameter settings for your operating system:

ADDITIONAL_ANT_JAVA_TASK_ARGS

ADDITIONAL_ANT_COMPILER_TASK_ARGS

Refer to sandbox.cfg Installation Properties. For information about other system requirements, go to the IBM Support Portal.  
Location of launchpad.exe (Windows Launchpad) or launchpad.sh (UNIX or Linux Launchpad) on your system. Launchpad is the IBM application that launches the IBM Installation Manager and the IBM Sterling Warehouse Management System installation. It is among the files you downloaded as part of your product purchase.
If you are using installation DVDs, Launchpad starts automatically when you insert the DVD.
   
Location to use for shared resources directory, if default would cause issues with previously installed products or versions (see the Installation Manager documentation for more information)

IBM Installation Manager information center

 
Path to and name of directory where you plan to install IBM Sterling Warehouse Management System software. Installation directory permissions and considerations  
Do you want to install for a sharded database environment? Multischema Overview  
Are you doing an upgrade from a prior version of IBM Sterling Warehouse Management System? If you are doing an upgrade, stop and review the Assessing migration for Warehouse Management System before proceeding with the upgrade.  
Are you going to manually or automatically apply database definition language (DDL) statements (schema) to the database? About applying database definition language (DDL) statements after a Windows installation  
Location of JDK on your system. (Use a pathname with no spaces.)    
Record the following information about your Oracle or DB2® database. This information may be case sensitive.    
Database user name and password (you should keep the password in a separate place for security purposes, instead of writing it here)    
Database catalog name This is typically the database name; also known as SERVICE_NAME or SID in some versions of Oracle.  
Database host name (or IP address)    
Oracle: Absolute path and file name for the JDBC driver file.    
DB2: Absolute paths and file names for the JDBC driver file and license file.    
Database schema owner    
DB2 only: Do you want to use multibyte support?    
If you are planning a Multischema deployment, determine and record the database information for five separate schemas Metadata, Statistics, Configuration, Master, and Transaction. Multischema Overview  
Are you planning to run a silent installation? Performing a silent installation