[Enterprise Extensions only]

Installing documentation (InfoCenter)

Documentation for enterprise services is located within the Enterprise Edition InfoCenter. You can view the InfoCenter online or download and install it locally.

Several WebSphere Application Server products use the InfoCenter (Advanced Edition, Enterprise Edition, and so on). Each of these products provides a separately-downloadable and installable JAR file containing product documentation. The contents of each JAR file are installed as a single InfoCenter on your machine. This enables you to simultaneously navigate, link, and search across all of your WebSphere Application Server documentation. The InfoCenter JAR files can be installed in any order.

To download and install the Enterprise Edition JAR file, complete the following steps:

  1. To a machine that has the Java 2 SDK installed, download InfoCenter_<locale>_wasee.jar.zip from the IBM WebSphere Application Server InfoCenter Web page.
  2. Remove the .zip extension (that is, rename the file to InfoCenter_locale_wasee.jar
  3. Run the following command:
    java -jar InfoCenter_<locale>_wasee.jar
  4. Follow the installation prompts.

    The InfoCenter installation program reports status as it runs. An InfoCenterInstall.Log file is produced in the InfoCenter installation directory. Use this file to verify what has been installed, and to review the report and error messages that are displayed in the command window during the installation.

    If you already have an InfoCenter installed on this machine, the new version is automatically installed to the same directory. The default installation directories for the InfoCenter are:

  5. Unix only: Complete the following post-installation steps
    1. Change to the installation directory (as listed in the previous step)
    2. Change to the /temp subdirectory.
    3. Enter the following command to give yourself execute permission on the file InstallUnix.sh:
      chmod a+x InstallUnix.sh
    4. Enter the following command to run the script:
      ./InstallUnix.sh

To access the InfoCenter home page, open the file InfoCenter/index.html in your Web browser.