Installing and using the WebSphere Customization Toolbox

The WebSphere Customization Toolbox include tools for managing, configuring, and migrating various parts of your WebSphere Application Server environment.

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New feature New feature: The WebSphere Customization Toolbox for WebSphere® Application Server Version 8.0 includes tools for customizing various parts of your WebSphere Application Server environment.
  • You can launch the Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool to configure your web server plug-ins for any operating system on which the WebSphere Customization Toolbox can be installed.

    You can also use the WCT command-line utility to launch the command-line version of the Plug-ins Configuration Tool, the pct tool.

  • You can launch the Profile Management Tool (z/OS only) on an Intel-based Windows or Linux operating system to generate jobs and instructions for creating profiles for WebSphere Application Server on z/OS systems.
  • You can launch the z/OS Migration Management Tool on an Intel-based Windows or Linux operating system to generate definitions for migrating WebSphere Application Server for z/OS profiles.
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Restriction:
You cannot use of some combinations of the GUI customization tools for IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 8.0 concurrently.
  • You cannot have the following tools or two instances of either tool open at the same time:
    • Profile Management Tool for distributed operating systems
    • Configuration Migration Tool for distributed operating systems
  • You cannot have the following tools within the WebSphere Customization Toolbox or two instances of any one tool open at the same time:
    • Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool
    • Profile Management Tool (z/OS only), which runs on Intel-based Windows or Linux operating systems
    • z/OS Migration Management Tool, which runs on Intel-based Windows or Linux operating systems
You can use one tool from one of these two sets and one tool from the other set at the same time.



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