Contact the IBM Software Support Center for information about upgrades. The most current information is available from the IBM Software Support Center and Fix Central. IBM Installation Manager is used to apply product maintenance.
Use Installation Manager on your local system to update the product with the fix pack from the live web-based service repositories. See Table 3 in WebSphere Application Server Version 8 product offerings for supported operating systems for a list of web-based service-repository URLs for the product offerings.
To install a fix pack from a service repository, perform the following actions:
Note: These are the credentials that you use to access protected IBM software websites. For information on creating a keyring file for Installation Manager, read Storing credentials in the Installation Manager Information Center.
When creating a keyring file, append /repository.config at the end of the URL location if the imutilsc command is unable to find the URL that is specified.
imcl.exe install offering_ID
-acceptLicense
-installationDirectory product_installation_location
-repositories repository_URL
-keyring keyring_file
./imcl install offering_ID
-acceptLicense
-installationDirectory product_installation_location
-repositories repository_URL
-keyring keyring_file
where offering_ID is the offering ID that is listed in WebSphere Application Server Version 8 product offerings for supported operating systems.
Tip: If you are using Installation Manager Version 1.4.4 or later, you can also specify none, recommended or all with the -installFixes argument to indicate which interim fixes you want installed with the offering. If the offering version is specified, the -installFixes option defaults to none. If no offering version is specified, the -installFixes option defaults to all.
imcl.exe listInstalledPackages -long
./imcl listInstalledPackages -long
You can download a compressed file that contains the fix pack from Fix Central. Each compressed fix-pack file contains an Installation Manager repository for the fix pack and usually has a .zip extension. After downloading the fix-pack file, use Installation Manager to update the product with the fix pack.
imcl.exe install offering_ID
-acceptLicense
-installationDirectory product_installation_location
-repositories compressed_file_or_location_of_expanded_files
./imcl install offering_ID
-acceptLicense
-installationDirectory product_installation_location
-repositories compressed_file_or_location_of_expanded_files
where offering_ID is the offering ID that is listed in WebSphere Application Server Version 8 product offerings for supported operating systems.
imcl.exe listInstalledPackages -long
./imcl listInstalledPackages -long