Install the WebSphere® Customization
Tools Version 7.0.0.3 or later to customize your WebSphere eXtreme Scale for z/OS® environment.
Before you begin
Install WebSphere eXtreme Scale for z/OS. See the WebSphere eXtreme Scale Program Directory on
the Library Page for more information.
About this task
The WebSphere Customization
Tools is a workstation based graphical tool you use to create customized
jobs that build WebSphere eXtreme Scale for z/OS runtime environments.
- Use FTP to copy the xs.wct and xspf.wct extension
files from your z/OS system
to the workstation on which you are installing the WebSphere Customization Tools. The
extension files are in the /usr/lpp/zWebSphereXS/util/V7R0/WCT directory
on your z/OS system.
- Download and install the WebSphere Customization Tools Version 7.0.0.3
or later from the appropriate Web site:
- Upload the xs.wct file to the WebSphere Customization Tools
application.
- Start the WebSphere Customization
Tools application on your workstation.
- Click .
- From the WebSphere Customization
Tools Extension Locations panel, click Install new extension
location.
- From the Source Archive File panel, click Browse,
navigate to the directory in which you copied the xs.wct file
in step 1, and click Open.
- Click Next on the Summary panel.
Note: The Install Successful panel
is displayed. Before you can click
Finish,
you must copy and save the data from the location field:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\WCT\workspace\configuration\
com.ibm.ws.pmt.update\com.ibm.ws390.pmt.xs_7.0.0.0\eclipse
- From the Product Configuration panel, click Add
an extension location. Paste the data you copied
in the previous step in the Location field, and click OK.
- Click Yes to restart the WebSphere Customization Tools.
- Upload the xspf.wct file to the WebSphere Customization Tools
application.
- Click .
- From the WebSphere Customization
Tools Extension Locations panel, click Install new extension
location.
- From the Source Archive File panel, click Browse,
navigate to the directory in which you copied the xspf.wct file
in step 1, and click Open.
- Click Next on the Summary panel.
Note: The Install Successful panel
is displayed. Before you can click
Finish,
you must copy and save the data from the location field:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\WCT\workspace\configuration\
com.ibm.ws.pmt.update\com.ibm.ws390.pmt.xs_7.0.0.0\eclipse
- From the Product Configuration panel, click Add
an extension location. Paste the data you copied
in the previous step in the Location field, and click OK.
- Click Yes to restart the WebSphere Customization Tools.
What to do next
After you upload both extension files and restart the WebSphere Customization Tools,
you can use the Profile Management Tool to generate customization
definitions for eXtreme Scale for z/OS. See Generating customization definitions for
more information.