Before creating a customized installation package (CIP), set up the Installation Factory on your system.
Before creating a CIP, you must first create a build definition for the CIP. The build definition is an XML document that defines how the Installation Factory is to customize the WebSphere Application Server product. The Installation Factory graphical user interface (GUI) is the easiest way to create a build definition. Launch the GUI with the ifgui command from the bin directory. You can save a build definition and use it to generate the CIP directly from the GUI. Alternately, you can pass the build definition to the command-line interface through an option on the ifcli command. The alternate approach is useful when you want to create the build definition interactively on one machine using the GUI, but then generate the CIP in batch mode, perhaps on a different machine, and perhaps as part of some larger automated process.