You can update this product to a later version using Installation
Manager response files.
Before you begin
Tip: As an alterative to the procedure that is
described in this article, Installation Manager allows you to use
the updateAll command in a response file or on
the command line to search for and update all installed packages.
Use this command only if you have full control over which fixes are
contained in the targeted repositories. If you create and point to
a set of custom repositories that include only the specific fixes
that you want to install, you should be able to use this command confidently.
If you enable searching service repositories or install fixes directly
from other live web-based repositories, then you might not want to
select this option so that you can select only the fixes that you
want to install using the -installFixes option with the install command
on the command line or the installFixes attribute in a response file.
About this task
Restriction: You cannot
use the Installation Manager to upgrade an installation and add or
remove the full WebSphere® Application
Server profile feature or the Liberty profile feature.
Note: In WebSphere Application
Server Version 8.5.5.0, the Liberty profile was promoted from a feature
to an independently installable offering. You cannot make an inplace
update of the Version 8.5.0.
x Liberty profile feature.
The
wlp folder includes the Liberty runtime
and any user data or server configurations that you have saved in
the
wlp/usr folder. If you have a combined full-profile
and Liberty-profile Version 8.5.0.
x installation,
the update program will back up the
wlp folder
for the existing Version 8.5.0.
x Liberty profile
feature into the
wlp.bak_<timestamp> folder
and uninstall the feature during an update to Version 8.5.5.0 or higher.
You can continue using Liberty from the backed-up location or copy
it elsewhere. To update the Liberty profile to Version 8.5.5.0 or
higher, you then must install WebSphere Application
Server Liberty (with the
com.ibm.websphere.liberty.BASE.v85 offering ID). After installing WebSphere Application Server
Liberty, you can move any user data and server configurations
from the
wlp.bak_<timestamp> folder
to the new Liberty installation. See
Updating the Liberty profile from Version 8.5.0 to
Version 8.5.5 for more information.
Example
The following is an example of a response file for updating
the product to a later version.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-input>
<server>
<repository location='https://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.BASE.v85'/>
</server>
<profile id='IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5' installLocation='/QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/BASE'>
<data key='eclipseLocation' value='/QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/BASE'/>
<data key='was.install.os400.profile.location' value='/QIBM/UserData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/BASE'/>
<data key='user.import.profile' value='false'/>
<data key='cic.selector.nl' value='en, fr, it, zh, ro, ru, zh_TW, de, ja, pl, es, cs, hu, ko, pt_BR'/>
</profile>
<install modify='false'>
<offering profile='IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5' id='com.ibm.websphere.BASE.v85'
version='8.5.0.20101025_2108' features='core.feature'/>
</install>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.eclipseCache' value='/QIBM/UserData/InstallationManager/IMShared'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.connectTimeout' value='30'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.readTimeout' value='30'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.downloadAutoRetryCount' value='0'/>
<preference name='offering.service.repositories.areUsed' value='true'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.ssl.nonsecureMode' value='false'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.http.disablePreemptiveAuthentication' value='false'/>
<preference name='http.ntlm.auth.kind' value='NTLM'/>
<preference name='http.ntlm.auth.enableIntegrated.win32' value='true'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.preserveDownloadedArtifacts' value='true'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.keepFetchedFiles' value='false'/>
<preference name='PassportAdvantageIsEnabled' value='false'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates' value='false'/>
</agent-input>