Fix Pack 8550

Installing and removing Liberty features on IBM i operating systems using response files

You can install and remove WebSphere® Application Server Liberty Network Deployment features using Installation Manager response files.

About this task

Perform this procedure to use Installation Manager to install or remove a feature silently using a response file.

Like other Installation Manager operations, you can invoke a modification using the imcl command-line tool. Go to the IBM® Installation Manager Information Center for more information.

Optional features: In the following list of optional features, the names to be used in the response files are enclosed in parentheses:
  • Embeddable EJB container and JPA client (embeddablecontainer)

    This option installs the embeddable EJB container and JPA client.

    The embeddable EJB container is a Java™ Archive (JAR) file that you can use to run enterprise beans in a standalone Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE) environment. You can run enterprise beans using this embeddable container outside the application server. The embeddable EJB container is a part of the EJB 3.1 specification and is primarily used for unit testing enterprise beans business logic.

    The JPA client can be used with the embeddable EJB container to provide Java Persistence API capability in a Java SE environment.

  • Extended Programming Models (extprogmodels)

    The Extended Programming Models feature provides a rich set of programming models such as Web Services, JMS (including Message-Driven Beans), and Mongo 2.0.

Procedure

  1. Optional: If the repository requires a username and password, create a credential-storage file to access this repository.
    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.
    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.
  2. Sign on to the IBM i system with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
  3. On a CL command line, run the STRQSH command to start the Qshell command shell.
  4. Use a response file to install or remove a feature.
    Change to the eclipse/tools subdirectory in the directory where you installed Installation Manager, and modify the product. For example:
    ./imcl
      input $HOME/WASFiles/temp/modify_response_file.xml 
      -log $HOME/WASFiles/temp/modify_log.xml 
      -secureStorageFile $HOME/WASFiles/temp/credential.store -masterPasswordFile $HOME/WASFiles/master_password_file.txt
    Note: The program might write important post-installation instructions to standard output.

    For more information on using Installation Manager, read the IBM Installation Manager Information Center.

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