Install the WebSphere® Customization Toolbox to
customize your WebSphere eXtreme Scale for z/OS® environment.
Before you begin
- Install WebSphere eXtreme Scale for z/OS. See the WebSphere eXtreme Scale Program Directory on
the Library Page for more information.
You must use the latest version of the
WebSphere Customization Toolbox to successfully install
the product extension files.
Attention: You can use
WebSphere Customization Toolbox Version 8.5 to customize
WebSphere Application Server Version 7, Version 8,
and Version 8.5.
About this task
The WebSphere Customization
Tools is a workstation-based graphical tool you use to create customized
jobs that build WebSphere eXtreme Scale for z/OS runtime environments.
Procedure
- Use FTP to copy the xs.wct extension
file from your z/OS system
to the workstation on which you are installing the WebSphere Customization Tools. The extension files are in the /usr/lpp/zWebSphere/util/WCT directory
on your z/OS operating system.
- Download and install the latest version of the WebSphere Customization Toolbox.
- Upload the xs.wct file to the WebSphere Customization Toolbox application.
- Start the WebSphere Customization Toolbox application
on your workstation.
- Click .
- From the WebSphere Customization Toolbox Extension
panel, click Install.
- From the Source Archive File panel, click Browse,
navigate to the directory in which you copied the xs.wct file
in step 1, and click Open.
- Click Next on the Source Archive
panel.
- Click Next on the Extension summary
panel, and click Finish on the WebSphere Customization Toolbox Extension panel.
- From the WebSphere Customization Toolbox Extension panel, click Install.
- From the Source Archive
File panel, click Browse, navigate to the directory
in which you copied the xspf.wct file in step
1, and click Open.
- Click Next on
the Summary panel.
- Click Next on
the Extension summary panel, and click Finish on
the WebSphere Customization Toolbox Extension panel
What to do next
After you upload both extension files and restart the WebSphere Customization Toolbox, you can use the Profile
Management Tool to generate customization definitions for WebSphere eXtreme Scale for z/OS. See Generating customization definitions for
more information.