You can use the IBM® Installation
Manager command line to update the product with the fix packs that
are available for WebSphere® Application
Server Version 8.5.
Before you begin
Contact the IBM Software
Support Center for information about upgrades for WebSphere Application Server. 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
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
Network
Deployment (with the
com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85 offering ID). After installing WebSphere Application Server
Liberty
Network
Deployment, 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.