Fix Pack 8550

Installing Liberty on IBM i operating systems using the command line

You can install WebSphere® Application Server Liberty Network Deployment on IBM® i operating systems using the Installation Manager command line.

Before you begin

Prepare for the installation before using this procedure. See Preparing the operating system for installation on IBM i for more information.

Important: Before installing WebSphere Application Server Liberty Network Deployment, you must read the license agreement that you can find with the product files. Signify your acceptance of the license agreement by specifying -acceptLicense in the command as described in this topic.
Install Installation Manager on the system onto which you want to install the product.
  • If you want to use the Installation Manager that comes with this product, perform the following actions:
    1. Obtain the necessary files.
      There are three basic options for obtaining and installing Installation Manager and the product.
      • Access the physical media, and use local installation
        You can access the product repositories on the media.
        1. Install Installation Manager on your system.

          You can install Installation Manager using the media, using a file obtained from the Passport Advantage® site, or using a file containing the most current version of Installation Manager from the IBM Installation Manager download website.

        2. Use Installation Manager to install the product from the product repositories on the media.
      • Download the files from the Passport Advantage site, and use local installation
        Licensed customers with a Passport Advantage ID and password can download the necessary product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.
        1. Download the files from the Passport Advantage site.
        2. Install Installation Manager on your system.

          You can install Installation Manager using the media, using a file obtained from the Passport Advantage site, or using a file containing the most current version of Installation Manager from the IBM Installation Manager download website.

        3. Use Installation Manager to install the product from the downloaded repositories.
      • Access the live repositories, and use web-based installation
        If you have a Passport Advantage ID and password, you can install the product from the web-based repositories.
        1. Install Installation Manager on your system.

          You can install Installation Manager using the media, using a file obtained from the Passport Advantage site, or using a file containing the most current version of Installation Manager from the IBM Installation Manager download website.

        2. Use Installation Manager to install the product from the web-based repository located at
          http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85 
          Note: This location does not contain a web page that you can access using a web browser. This is a remote web-based repository location that you must specify for the value of the -repositories parameter so that the imcl command can access the files in this repository to install the product.

        Whenever possible, you should use the remote web-based repositories so that you are accessing the most up-to-date installation files.

      Note: If you do not have a Passport Advantage ID and password, you must install the product from the product repositories on the media or local repositories.
    2. Choose three separate locations for Installation Manager's binaries, runtime data (agent data), and shared data locations.
    3. Install Installation Manager using the Installation Manager command line.
      1. Sign on to the IBM i system with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
      2. On a CL command line, run the STRQSH command to start the Qshell command shell.
      3. Make sure that the umask is set to 022.
        To verify the umask setting, issue the following command:
        umask
        To set the umask setting to 022, issue the following command:
        umask 022
      4. Change to the location containing the Installation Manager installation files, and run the following command:
        installc -acceptLicense -log log_file_path_and_name
        Notes:
  • If you already have a version of Installation Manager installed on your system and you want to use it to install and maintain the product, obtain the necessary product files.
    There are three basic options for installing the product.
    • Access the physical media, and use local installation

      You can access the product repositories on the media. Use Installation Manager to install the product from the product repositories on the media.

    • Download the files from the Passport Advantage site, and use local installation
      Licensed customers with a Passport Advantage ID and password can download the necessary product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.
      1. Download the product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.
      2. Use Installation Manager to install the product from the downloaded repositories.
    • Access the live repositories, and use web-based installation
      If you have a Passport Advantage ID and password, you can use Installation Manager to install the product from the web-based repositories. Use Installation Manager to install the product from the web-based repository located at
      http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85 
      Note: This location does not contain a web page that you can access using a web browser. This is a remote web-based repository location that you must specify for the value of the -repositories parameter so that the imcl command can access the files in this repository to install the product.

      Whenever possible, you should use the remote web-based repositories so that you are accessing the most up-to-date installation files.

    Note: If you do not have a Passport Advantage ID and password, you must install the product from the product repositories on the media or local repositories.

Procedure

  1. Optional: If the repository requires a username and password, create a credential-storage file to access this repository.
    Tip: When creating a credential-storage file, append /repository.config at the end of the repository URL location if the imutilsc command is unable to find the URL that is specified.
    Note: When you use Installation Manager Version 1.6.2 and later, you should use the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options to store credentials in a credential-storage file. In versions of Installation Manager earlier than Version 1.6.2, the -keyring and -password options were used to access credentials in a keyring file. These options were deprecated in Version 1.6.2. There is no migration path from keyring files to storage files because of the differences in the file structures. For more information on using the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options to store credentials in a credential-storage file, see the Installation Manager Version 1.6 Information Center. For more information on using the -keyring and -password options to store credentials in a keyring file, see the Installation Manager Version 1.5 Information Center.
  2. Choose three separate locations for the product's binaries, runtime data (agent data), and shared data locations.
  3. Sign on to the IBM i system with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
  4. On a CL command line, run the STRQSH command to start the Qshell command shell.
  5. Make sure that the umask is set to 022.
    To verify the umask setting, issue the following command:
    umask
    To set the umask setting to 022, issue the following command:
    umask 022
  6. Change to the eclipse/tools subdirectory in the directory where you installed Installation Manager.
  7. Use the imcl command to install the product.
    ./imcl install com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85_offering_version,optional_feature_ID
      -repositories source_repository 
      -installationDirectory installation_directory 
      -sharedResourcesDirectory shared_directory
      -preferences preference_key=value
      -properties property_key=value
      -secureStorageFile storage_file -masterPasswordFile master_password_file
      -acceptLicense
    Tips:
    • The relevant terms and conditions, notices, and other information are provided in the license-agreement files in the lafiles or product_name/lafiles subdirectory of the installation image or repository for this offering.
    • You can install a list of features that are separated by commas.
      • Embeddable EJB container and JPA client (embeddablecontainer)

        This option installs the embeddable EJB container and JPA client.

        The embeddable EJB container is a Java™ Archive (JAR) file that you can use to run enterprise beans in a standalone Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE) environment. You can run enterprise beans using this embeddable container outside the application server. The embeddable EJB container is a part of the EJB 3.1 specification and is primarily used for unit testing enterprise beans business logic.

        The JPA client can be used with the embeddable EJB container to provide Java Persistence API capability in a Java SE environment.

      • Extended Programming Models (extprogmodels)

        The Extended Programming Models feature provides a rich set of programming models such as Web Services, JMS (including Message-Driven Beans), and Mongo 2.0.

      Notes:
      • If no features are specified, the default features (embeddablecontainer and extprogmodels) are installed. To install only the feature that you want, specify that feature explicitly.
    • The offering_version, which optionally can be attached to the offering ID with an underscore, is a specific version of the offering to install (8.5.5.20110503_0200 for example).
      • If offering_version is not specified, the latest version of the offering and all interim fixes for that version are installed.
      • If offering_version is specified, the specified version of the offering and no interim fixes for that version are installed.
      The offering version can be found attached to the end of the offering ID with an underscore when you run the following command against the repository:
      ./imcl listAvailablePackages -repositories source_repository
    • 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 not specified, the -installFixes option defaults to all.
      • If the offering version is specified, the -installFixes option defaults to none.
    • For initial installations, it is a good practice to specify the user_data_root; otherwise, the default value for the user_data_root, /QIBM/UserData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/ND, is used. Use the was.install.os400.profile.location property to specify the user_data_root. If the user_data_root is to be /QIBM/UserData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/ND_1, for example, specify -properties was.install.os400.profile.location=/QIBM/UserData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/ND_1 on the imcl installation command.
    • The program might write important post-installation instructions to standard output.

    For more information on using the imcl command to install the product, see the IBM Installation Manager Information Center.

Example

Here is an example of using the imcl command to install Websphere Application Server Liberty Network Deployment:
./imcl install com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85
  -repositories https://downloads.mycorp.com:8080/WAS_85_repository
  -installationDirectory /QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/ND
  -properties was.install.os400.profile.location=/QIBM/UserData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/ND
  -sharedResourcesDirectory /QIBM/UserData/InstallationManager/IMShared
  -secureStorageFile $HOME/WASFiles/temp/credential.store -masterPasswordFile $HOME/WASFiles/IM/master_password_file.txt
  -acceptLicense

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