Product fix packs contain bundled service to bring WebSphere® Application Server
Liberty Network
Deployment up
to a new product level. Interim fixes provide corrective service for
specific known problems. You can use the IBM® Installation
Manager command-line function to update the product with the fixes
that are available for your service level of WebSphere Application Server Liberty Network
Deployment installation.
Before you begin
Contact the IBM Software
Support Center for information about updates for WebSphere Application Server for IBM i. The most current information
is available from the IBM Software
Support Center and Fix Central.
IBM Installation Manager is used to apply product
maintenance to WebSphere Application
Server for IBM i.
Tip: As an alternative 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 installFixesattribute in a response file.
About this task
Use this procedure whenever you want to apply a new fix pack
to your system.
Restriction: You cannot use the
iRemoteInstall command
to install a fix pack.
Procedure
- For a list of fixes that are available for WebSphere Application Server Liberty Network
Deployment installation
and specific information about each fix, perform the following actions.
- Go to Fix
Central.
- Select WebSphere as
the product group.
- Select WebSphere Application
Server Liberty Network
Deployment as
the product.
- Select the installed version.
- Select your operating system as the platform, and click Continue.
- Select Browse for fixes, and click Continue.
- Click More Information under each fix to view information
about the fix.
- Recommendation: Make a list of the names of the fixes that
you would like to install.
- Update WebSphere Application
Server Liberty Network
Deployment installation
with the fix pack using one of the following procedures.
- Access the live service repository that contains the fix pack,
and use web-based updating.
Use Installation Manager on your local
system to update WebSphere Application
Server Liberty
Network
Deployment with
the interim fixes from the live web-based service repositories.
To install a fix from a service repository, perform the
following actions:
- If you do not already have Installation Manager credential-storage
and master-password files containing your IBM software user ID and password, create files
that will allow you to access the repository.
Note: These are the credentials
that you use to access protected IBM software
websites.
For information on creating credential-storage and
master-password files for Installation Manager, read the IBM Installation
Manager Information Center.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.
- Sign on to the IBM i system
with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
- Stop all servers and applications on the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Network
Deployment installation
that is being updated.
- On a CL command line, run the STRQSH command to start the Qshell
command shell.
- 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
- Change to the Installation_Manager_binaries/eclipse/tools directory,
where Installation_Manager_binaries is
the installation root directory for the Installation Manager.
On IBM i systems, the root directory
for the Installation Manager is /QIBM/ProdData/InstallationManager.
- Install the fix pack.
./imcl install offering_ID_offering_version,optional_feature_ID
-repositories source_repository
-installationDirectory offering_installation_location
-secureStorageFile storage_file -masterPasswordFile master_password_file
-acceptLicense
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.
- Optional: List all installed packages to verify the installation:
./imcl listInstalledPackages -long
- Download a file that contains the fix pack from Fix Central, and
use local updating.
You can download a compressed file that contains
the fix pack from Fix Central. Each compressed fix file contains an
Installation Manager repository for the fix pack and usually has a
.zip extension. After downloading the fix file, you can use Installation
Manager to update WebSphere Application
Server Liberty
Network
Deployment with
the fix pack.
- To download the fix pack, perform the following actions:
- Go to Fix
Central.
- Select WebSphere as
the product group.
- Select WebSphere Application
Server Liberty Network
Deployment as
the product.
- Select the installed version.
- Select your operating system as the platform, and click Continue.
- Select Browse for fixes, and click Continue.
- Select the fix pack that you want to download, and click Continue.
- Select your download options, and click Continue.
- Click I agree to agree to the terms and conditions.
- Click Download now to download the fix pack.
- Transfer the compressed fix file in binary format to the IBM i systems on which it will be
installed.
- Extract the compressed repository file to a directory on your
system.
- To install a fix pack from a downloaded file, perform the following
actions:
- Sign on to the IBM i system
with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
- Stop all servers and applications on the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Network
Deployment installation
that is being updated.
- On a CL command line, run the STRQSH command to start the Qshell
command shell.
- 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
- Change to the Installation_Manager_binaries/eclipse/tools directory,
where Installation_Manager_binaries is
the installation root directory for the Installation Manager.
On IBM i systems, the root directory
for the Installation Manager is /QIBM/ProdData/InstallationManager.
- Install the fix pack.
./imcl install offering_ID_offering_version,optional_feature_ID
-repositories location_of_expanded_files
-installationDirectory offering_installation_location
-acceptLicense
- Optional: List all installed packages to verify the installation:
./imcl listInstalledPackages -long