IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine uses IBM Installation Manager to
upgrade Rational Publishing Engine.
When your role is a data administrator, document designer, or document
generator, you can complete this task to upgrade Rational Publishing Engine on
your local computer.
Before you begin
If you are upgrading from version 1.1.2.2 or earlier:
The
version number directory was removed from the installation path in Rational Publishing Engine 1.2.
To remove this directory, you must uninstall Rational Publishing Engine and
install it again. If you do not want to remove this directory, you
can complete this task to upgrade.
About this task
Note: If you had the Monitor & Control component
(RPEMC) installed with Rational Publishing Engine 1.1.2.2
or earlier, it is uninstalled when you upgrade. In Rational Publishing Engine 1.2
and later, the features of the Monitor & Control component are
included in the Web Services application so
a separate web application is no longer needed.
Procedure
- Close all other applications.
- On a local server, extract the Rational Publishing Engine update
package to a directory that you can use as the update repository.
- On each computer with Rational Publishing Engine installed,
start Installation
Manager.
Click .
- In Installation
Manager,
click .
- Enter the path to the local update repository and click OK.
Click OK to close the Preferences window.
- Click Update. The Installation
Manager checks
for updates.
- If you have an earlier version of Installation
Manager installed
than the Rational Publishing Engine version
requires, you must update it before you can continue with the installation.
- Rational Publishing Engine 1.2
requires Installation
Manager version
1.5.2 or later.
- Rational Publishing Engine 1.2.0.1
requires Installation
Manager version
1.6.1 or later.
The appropriate Installation
Manager version
is included with each version of the Rational Publishing Engine installation
files. You do not have to download the required version separately.
- Click Yes at the prompt to update Installation
Manager.
If your Installation
Manager is
current, go to step 9.
- When the update completes, click OK to
restart Installation
Manager.
- Click Update.
- On the Update Packages page, select
the package group Rational Publishing Engine and
click Next.
- Select the fix pack release and click Next.
- Accept the license agreement and click Next.
- Select the features to install and click Next.
- Select your preference option for the Help System and
click Next.
- In the Review summary information page, click Update.
- When the update completes and you are informed that packages
were installed successfully, click Finish to
close the Update Packages windows.
- Close Installation
Manager.
What to do next
Complete the tasks in the
Post-upgrade checklist.