You can use the Installation Manager GUI to install the WebSphere® Customization Toolbox.
Before you begin
You must use Passport Advantage® to obtain a downloadable version of the WebSphere Customization Toolbox.
After
you have downloaded the WebSphere Customization
Toolbox, use the IBM® Packaging
Utility to copy it to a local system from the IBM hosted repository, Read the "Creating custom
installation repositories with IBM Packaging
Utility" topic for more information.
Note: The WebSphere Customization Toolbox
is included on a CD that ships with the z/OS® version
of the product.
Install Installation Manager: - Perform one of the following procedures:
- If you want to use the Installation Manager that is included with
this product, perform the following actions:
- Obtain the necessary files.
There are
three basic options for obtaining and installing Installation Manager
and the product.
- Change to the location containing the Installation Manager installation
files, and run one of the following commands:
- Administrative installation:
- Windows: install.exe
- AIX®, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris: ./install
- Non-administrative installation:
- Windows: userinst.exe
- AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris: ./userinst
- Group-mode installation (AIX,
HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris only):
- ./groupinst -dataLocation application_data_location
The installer opens an Install Packages window.
- Make sure that the Installation Manager package is selected, and
click Next.
- Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
The
program creates the directory for your installation.
- Click Next.
- Review the summary information, and click Install.
- If the installation is successful, the program displays a message
indicating that installation is successful.
- If the installation is not successful, click View Log
File to troubleshoot the problem.
- If you already have Installation
Manager Version 1.5.2 or later 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 product media. Use Installation
Manager to install the product from the product repositories on the
media.
- Download the files from the product website, and use local
installation
You can download the necessary product repositories
from the product website.
- Download the product repositories from the product website.
- Use Installation Manager to install the product from the downloaded
repositories.
- Access the live repositories, and use web-based installation
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.WCT.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.
- Add the product repository to your Installation Manager preferences.
- Start Installation Manager.
- In the top menu, click File > Preferences.
- Select Repositories.
- Perform the following actions:
- Click Add Repository.
- Enter the path to the repository.config file
in the location containing the repository files.
For example:
- Windows: C:\repositories\product_name\local-repositories
- AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris: /var/repositories/product_name/local-repositories
or
http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.WCT.v85
- Click OK.
- Deselect any locations listed in the Repositories window that
you will not be using.
- Click Apply.
- Click OK.
- Click File > Exit to close Installation
Manager.
Procedure
- Start Installation Manager.
Tip: On AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris systems, you can start Installation
Manager in group mode with the
./IBMIM command.
- Click Install.
Note: If
you are prompted to authenticate, use the IBM ID and password that you registered with
on the program website.
Installation Manager searches its
defined repositories for available packages.
- Perform the following actions.
- Select WebSphere Customization
Toolbox and the appropriate version.
If you already
have the WebSphere Customization
Toolbox installed on your system, a message displays indicating that
the WebSphere Customization
Toolbox is already installed. To create another installation of the WebSphere Customization Toolbox
in another location, click Continue.
Tip: If the Search service repositories
during installation and updates option is selected on the Installation
Manager Repository preference page and you are connected to the Internet,
you can click Check for Other Versions and Extensions to search
for updates in the default update repositories for the selected packages.
In this case, you do not need to add the specific service-repository
URL to the Installation Manager Repository preference page.
- Select the fixes to install.
Any recommended fixes are selected by default.
If there
are recommended fixes, you can select the option to show only recommended
fixes and hide non-recommended fixes.
- Click Next.
- Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
- Specify the installation root directory for the tool binaries,
which are also referred to as the core product files or system files.
The panel also displays the shared resources directory and
disk-space information.
- Click Next.
- Select the tools that you want to install.
Choose
from the following optional tools:
Note: If you install the z/OS Migration
Management Tool, you must also install the Profile Management Tool
(z/OS only). This selection
is done automatically.
- Click Next.
- Review the summary information, and click Install.
- Optional: Select None to
deselect WebSphere Customization Toolbox if
you do not want to open the WebSphere Customization
Toolbox when this installation is finished.
- Click Finish.
- Click File > Exit to close Installation
Manager.