Fix Pack 8550

Obtaining repositories for installing Liberty on z/OS

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.


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