You can uninstall the Pluggable Application Client using
Installation Manager response files.
About this task
Using Installation Manager, you can work with response
files to uninstall the Pluggable Application Client in a variety of
ways. You can record a response file using the GUI as described in
the following procedure, or you can generate a new response file by
hand or by taking an example and modifying it.
Procedure
- Stop all servers and applications on the Pluggable Application
Client installation that contains the product.
- Optional: Record a response file to uninstall
the Pluggable Application Client: On one of your systems, perform
the following actions to record a response file that will uninstall
the Pluggable Application Client:
- From a command line, change to the eclipse subdirectory
in the directory where you installed Installation Manager.
- Start Installation Manager from the command line using
the -record option.
For example:
IBMIM.exe -skipInstall "C:\temp\imRegistry"
-record C:\temp\uninstall_response_file.xml
Tip: If you choose to use the -skipInstall parameter with a
temporary installation registry created as described in
Before
you begin, Installation Manager uses the temporary installation
registry while recording the response file. It is important to note
that when the -skipInstall parameter is specified, no packages are
installed or uninstalled. All of the actions that you perform in Installation
Manager simply update the installation data that is stored in the
specified temporary registry. After the response file is generated,
it can be used to uninstall the Pluggable Application Client, removing
the Pluggable Application Client files and updating the standard installation
registry.
The -skipInstall operation should not be used on the actual
agent data location used by Installation Manager. This is unsupported.
Use a clean writable location, and re-use that location for future
recording sessions.
For more information, read the IBM® Installation
Manager Version 1.6 Information Center or the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.5 Information Center.
- Click Uninstall.
- In the Uninstall Packages window,
perform the following actions.
- Select Pluggable Application Client for IBM WebSphere Application
Server and the appropriate version.
Note: If
you are uninstalling the ILAN version of this product, select Pluggable
Application Client for IBM WebSphere Application Server (ILAN).
- Click Next.
- Review the summary information.
- Click Uninstall.
- If the uninstallation is successful, the program displays a message
that indicates success.
- If the uninstallation is not successful, click View log to
troubleshoot the problem.
- Click Finish.
- Click File > Exit to close
Installation Manager.
- Use the response file to uninstall the Pluggable Application
Client: From a command line on each of the systems from which
you want to uninstall the Pluggable Application Client, change to
the eclipse/tools subdirectory in the directory
where you installed Installation Manager and use the response file
that you created to uninstall the Pluggable Application Client.
For example:
imcl.exe
input C:\temp\uninstall_response_file.xml
-log C:\temp\uninstall_log.xml
Go to the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.6 Information Center or the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.5 Information Center for more information.
- Optional: List all installed packages to
verify the uninstallation.
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./imcl listInstalledPackages
imcl listInstalledPackages
- Optional: Uninstall IBM Installation Manager.
Important: Before you can uninstall IBM Installation Manager, you must uninstall
all of the packages that were installed by Installation Manager.
Read
the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.6 Information Center or the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.5 Information Center for information about
using the uninstall script to perform this procedure.
Example
The following is an example of a response
file for uninstalling the Pluggable Application Client.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-input clean='true' temporary='true'>
<uninstall modify='false'>
<offering id='com.ibm.websphere.PLUGCLIENT.v85'
profile='Pluggable Application Client for IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5'
features='pluggableclient.core.feature,pluggableclient.samples'/>
</uninstall>
<profile id='Pluggable Application Client for IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5'
installLocation='C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\PlugClient'>
<data key='eclipseLocation' value='C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\PlugClient'/>
<data key='user.import.profile' value='false'/>
<data key='user.select.64bit.image,com.ibm.websphere.PLUGCLIENT.v85' value='false'/>
<data key='user.appclient.serverHostname' value='localhost'/>
<data key='user.appclient.serverPort' value='2809'/>
<data key='user.plugclient.sunJreHome' value='C:\Program Files\Java\jre6'/>
<data key='user.plugclient.sunJdkHome' value='C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21'/>
<data key='cic.selector.nl' value='en'/>
</profile>
</agent-input>
Tip: See Sample
response file: Uninstalling the Pluggable Application Client for IBM WebSphere® Application Server for
an annotated sample of a response file for performing this procedure.