Downloading the installation media

Download the adapter installation media from IBM® Passport Advantage®. You must correctly extract the contents of the compressed files before you can install the software. The product DVD can be ordered from ibm.com®

Before you begin

Tip: If you want to order a product DVD instead of downloading an electronic image, see ibm.com.

About this task

Download and extract the installation media.

Important: For Linux Do not use the jar command to extract the package. Use the unzip command to keep the execution permission so you can run the launchpad program.

Procedure

Extract the package to a temporary directory. To avoid issues, do not use long paths and directories that have spaces in their names.
  1. Create a directory.
    • For Windows C:\temp\HP_INSTALL_IMAGE
    • For Linux /tmp/HP_INSTALL_IMAGE
  2. Extract the contents of the compressed file that you downloaded into the directory that you created in the previous step. Following the previous example, you now have the directory
    • For Windows C:\temp\HP_INSTALL_IMAGE\HPQM\disk1
    • For Linux /tmp/HP_INSTALL_IMAGE/HPQM/disk1

Results

You extracted the installation files for the software.

What to do next

Install the adapter software, see Installation tasks.

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