This topic provides the steps necessary to use the installation
wizard and perform a silent installation.
About this task
Use these steps to perform a silent installation, which uses
the installation wizard to install the product. Instead of displaying
a user interface, the silent installation provides interaction between
you and the wizard by reading all of your responses from a file that
you must customize.
Procedure
Verify that the user ID that you are using
to run the silent installation has sufficient authority to perform
the task.
Verify that the host server jobs are
started on your iSeries server. The host server jobs allow the installation
code to run on iSeries. Enter this command on a CL command line: STRHOSTSVR
SERVER(*ALL)
Customize the option response file.
- Locate the sample options response file. The file name
is setup.response in the operating system platform directory
on the product CD-ROM.
- Make a copy to preserve the original response file.
For example, copy the file as myoptionsfile.
- Edit the copy in your flat file editor of choice, on
the target operating system. Read the directions within the response
file to choose appropriate values.
To
prepare the file for a silent installation on AIX, use UNIX line-end
characters (0x0D0A) to terminate each line of the options response
file.
- Make a non-commented option to have a silent install.
- Include custom option responses that reflect parameters
for your system.
- Follow the instructions in the response file to choose
appropriate values.
- Save the file.
Verify that your user profile has the
*ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
Issue a command to use your custom response
file: Install.exe -options
myoptionsfile -silent for Windows platforms and ./install -options ./myoptionsfile -silent for
Linux and UNIX platforms. The sample options response file is located
in the AppClient directory on the product CD-ROM.
- Issue the following command from a command prompt to
update your response file: -OPT silentInstallLicenseAcceptance="true' .
Issuing
this command indicates that you accept all IBM license terms associated
with this product, which is necessary for installing application clients.
Place the WebSphere Application Server Supplements disc
in the disc drive of your iSeries server.
Optional: Restart your machine
in response to the prompt that appears on Windows platforms when the
installation is complete.
Customize the options response file.
- Locate the sample options response file. The file name
is setup.response in the operating system platform
directory on the product CD-ROM.
- Use the Copy (CPY) command to create a copy of the setup.response file
from the disk. For example:
CPY OBJ('/QOPT/WEBSPHERE/AppClient/setup.response') TODIR('/MYDIR')
Where:
QOPT
is the disk mount point.
WEBSPHERE is the disk volume label.
/AppClient
is the product directory on the disk. This will be referred to in
later steps.
Note: For DVD media, an additional directory prefix
is required before the product directory that reflects the operating
system and architecture of the installation. Using the previous example,
the following installation path applies when you use CD-ROM media:
CPY OBJ('/QOPT/WEBSPHERE/AppClient/setup.response') TODIR('/MYDIR')
However,
the following installation path applies when you use DVD media:
CPY OBJ('/QOPT/WEBSPHERE/os400_ppc64/AppClient/setup.response') TODIR('/MYDIR')
- Edit the copy of the file using EDTF from the i5/OS
command line or using Wordpad from a mapped drive. Accept
the license agreement by making the following change in the response
file: -OPT silentInstallLicenseAcceptance="true' This
is the only required change in the response file. Read the information
in the response file to determine if you want to change any other
options.
- Save the file.
Invoke the installation program for
WebSphere Application Client for i5/OS. To do this, run
the INSTALL command from Qshell :
- From the i5/OS command line, start a Qshell session: STRQSH
- Change directory to the AppClient subdirectory of CD-ROM
or DVD-ROM drive: cd /QOPT/WEBSPHERE/AppClient OR cd
/QOPT/WebSphere/os400_ppc64/AppClient
- Issue the INSTALL command to start
the installation program: install –options /MYDIR/setup.response
Important: Do not exit the Qshell session (PF3) until
the installation has completed. Doing so might cause the installation
to stop prematurely.
Results
You installed application clients silently by using the response
file.
Attention: Troubleshooting an invalid response
file name that was submitted during the silent installation. If
you get a response file error, the response file name may have been
typed incorrectly. Verify that this is the problem by removing the -silent command
and leaving -options <responsefile>. You may get a pop-up
window or command line error stating that the wizard cannot continue
because of the following error: The response file was not found (1001)
(403). The response file that you are passing cannot be found on the
system. Make sure that the path is correct, with no spelling mistakes,
and try the installation again.