The Rational Enterprise Deployment files and the Rational product might have different versions of Installation Manager. When Installation Manager is installed, it automatically checks for later Installation Manager versions. If your product requires a later version, you must update Installation Manager. However, if your product works with a version that is earlier than the one on your computer, Installation Manager remains at the current version. This is because Installation Manager is backward compatible.
Starting with Installation Manager version 1.3, you can set whether Installation Manager checks for updates. To do so, set the optioncom.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates to true or false when you record or edit the response file.
When the preference is set to true, Installation Manager is updated, if required, during the silent install. When set to false, if the Rational product requires a later Installation Manager version, you are notified and the silent install does not continue.
Service repositories, which contain product updates and fixes, are located at IBM®.com. Each Rational product includes links to service repositories that are specific to that product. You cannot view or modify these links, but you can set whether the service repositories are searched. To do so, set the option offering.service.repositories.areUsed to true or false when you record or edit the response file.
When the preference is set to true, Installation Manager searches the service repositories for updates to installed products. However, if a computer does not have access to IBM.com or you do not want the computer to access IBM.com, set this preference to false. This prevents Installation Manager from retrying a connection multiple times and then timing out when the connection is not made.
offering.service.repositories.areUsed=true com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates=trueInstallation Manager searches both the service repositories and the repositories listed in the response file for updates. Installation Manager looks for available updates to itself.
offering.service.repositories.areUsed=true com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates=falseInstallation Manager searches both the service repositories and the repositories listed in the response file for updates. Installation Manager does not look for available updates to itself.
offering.service.repositories.areUsed=false com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates=trueInstallation Manager does not access IBM.com to look at the service repositories for updates. Installation Manager does search the repositories listed in the response file for updates. Installation Manager does look for available updates to itself.
offering.service.repositories.areUsed=false com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates=falseInstallation Manager does not access IBM.com to look at the service repositories for updates. Installation Manager does search the repositories listed in the response file for updates. Installation Manager does not look for available updates to itself.