WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, Version 6.2.0 Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, i5/OS, Linux, Solaris, Windows


Automatic installation of interim fixes

WebSphere® ESB interim fixes can be automatically installed by placing them in a pre-defined or a user defined directory location. During installation, the directories are checked for interim fixes, and if any are found, they are installed as part of the installation process.

Often a set of critical or mandatory interim fixes are required for the product to be fully functional and are shipped at the same time as the product. Any interim fixes that are not included in the product package disks can be included in the packaging of the installation image. These fixes would be at the pre-defined location of <INSTALL_IMAGE_LOC>/WBI/WBI_Fixes. If you are installing from a writable location, not a DVD, then during installation, the software will check this pre-defined directory to see if there are any interim fixes that need to be installed.
Restriction: You cannot use the automatic installation of interim feature for WebSphere Application Server interim fixes.

If interim fixes are found, the fixes will be installed after the product binaries. The installer program will verify any interim fixes found at this location and report them on the Installation summary panel. If no interim fixes are found, then installation will continue normally.

To provide more flexibility, you can download relevant interim fixes and put them either into the default directory if you are not installing directly off of a DVD or in a directory of your choice. The user defined directory is an additional directory. Both the user defined and default directories will be checked for interim fixes.

For interactive installations, the installation program should be launched with the parameter -OPT fixLocation=<user_fix_dir>, where <user_fix_dir> is the user defined directory.
For i5/OS operating system Note: Automatic installation of interim fixes is not available when you are doing a remote installation for an i5/OS® platform. You can only use this feature when you are doing a silent installation directly on a System i server.

For silent installations, the response file will contain an additional parameter to be set:

fixLocation=<user_fix_dir>

By default this parameter will be commented out in the provided sample response file.

There is a defined order for installing the interim fixes from the pre-defined and the user defined directories. The pre-defined directory will be checked first, and then the user defined. If the installation program finds fixes in both the pre-defined and the user defined directories, both sets of fixes will be installed. If the same fix is found in both directories, the interim fix from the user defined directory will always be used. The installation program will check only the specified directory for fixes. Subdirectories will not be recursively checked. The installation program will check that the interim fixes are valid before displaying the Installation summary panel. Invalid fixes will not be displayed on this summary panel and will not be installed, but no error message will be displayed.


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