WebSphere® Application
Server Liberty for z/OS® offerings are
distributed as IBM® Installation
Manager repositories. These repositories contain the metadata and
files that are required to create one or more levels of a particular
product.
About this task
The initial repository for the WebSphere Application Server Liberty for z/OS offering can be obtained by
one of the following methods:
- Installing with SMP/E by using a ServerPac, SystemPac, or Customer-Build Product Delivery
Offering (CBPDO)
This results in a repository file system that contains the
initial repositories for WebSphere Application
Server for z/OS (including
the WebSphere Application
Liberty Server Liberty for z/OS offering), IBM HTTP Server for z/OS, and Web Server Plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS. An optional second repository
contains the code for IBM WebSphere SDK Java™ Technology Edition Version 7.0 for Liberty.
- Copying the initial (compressed) product repositories from the
product physical media or ShopzSeries to your z/OS system, and uncompressing them
When
you place an order for the product (CBPDO or ServerPac) on ShopzSeries,
you can select whether you want to receive either a physical tape
delivery or an internet/electronic delivery.
- If you select physical tape delivery, you receive a CD or DVD
that includes the IBM WebSphere Application Server
Liberty for z/OS compressed
repositories in a compressed file in the Additional Material directory
of the CD or DVD.
- If you select internet/electronic delivery, the WebSphere Application Server Liberty for z/OS compressed repositories are shipped
to you as an ISO file. You can then burn the ISO file to a CD or DVD,
or you can use virtualcd software to mount and process the ISO file
on your workstation.
New service levels can be installed from the web-based
service repositories or downloaded as service repositories that contain extra
product code. Each service repository contains all the necessary materials
to upgrade any previous service level of WebSphere Application Server Liberty for z/OS to the level of the service
repository.
- Applying PTFs to an SMP/E-based repository adds a single level
of the service repository for each component to the SMP/E-managed
repository.
- Downloading service repositories from Fix
Central allows you to upgrade WebSphere Application Server components
to new service levels.
Perform this procedure to obtain the repositories for
WebSphere Application
Server Liberty for z/OS.
Procedure
Results
If you installed the initial repository with SMP/E, you
now have a single repository file system that contains materials for
WebSphere Application
Server Liberty for z/OS, IBM HTTP Server for z/OS, and Web Server Plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS and a second (optional) file system that
contains the IBM WebSphere SDK Java Technology
Edition Version 7.0 for Liberty repository. Each repository file system
contains the initial product level. If PTFs are installed, each repository
file system contains a single product service level.
If you
installed the initial repositories without SMP/E, you now have separate directories that
contain the initial product repositories for WebSphere Application Server Liberty for z/OS, IBM HTTP
Server for z/OS, Web Server Plug-ins
for WebSphere Application
Server for z/OS, and IBM WebSphere SDK Java Technology
Edition Version 7.0 for Liberty (optional).
These repositories
can be supplemented with materials from the web-based service repository
or from downloaded service repositories. Service repositories can
be obtained from Fix
Central.
These repositories contain the necessary files
to install the product code for WebSphere Application
Server Liberty for z/OS, including IBM HTTP Server for z/OS, Web Server Plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, and IBM WebSphere SDK Java Technology Edition Version
7.0 for Liberty.
What to do next
When you use IBM Installation
Manager to install WebSphere Application
Server Liberty for z/OS, specify
the path to the appropriate repository in the -repositories parameter
of the imcl command.