IBM® Installation Manager is a program
for installing,
updating, and modifying packages. It helps you manage the IBM applications,
or packages, that it installs on your computer. Installation Manager
also helps you keep track of what you have installed, determines what
is available for you to install, and organizes installation directories.
Installation Manager provides
tools that help you keep packages
up to date, modify packages, manage the licenses for your packages,
and uninstall packages.
Installation Manager includes six wizards
that make it easy to
maintain packages:
- The Install wizard walks you through
the installation process.
You can install a package by simply accepting the defaults or you
can modify the default settings to create a custom installation. Before
you install, you get a complete summary of your selections throughout
the wizard. By using the wizard, you can install one or more packages
at a time.
- The Update wizard searches for available updates
to packages that
you have installed. An update might be a released fix, a new feature,
or a new version of the product. Details of the contents of the update
are provided in the wizard. You can choose whether to apply an update.
- The Modify wizard helps you modify certain elements of a package
that you have already installed. During the first installation of
the package, you select the features that you want to install. If
you require other features later, you can use the modify packages
wizard to add the features to your package. You can also remove features
and add or remove languages.
- The Manage Licenses wizard helps
you set up the licenses for your
packages. Use this wizard to change your trial license to a full license,
to set up your servers for floating licenses, and to select which
type of license to use for each package.
- The Roll Back wizard
helps you revert to a previous version of
a package.
- The Uninstall wizard removes a package
from your
computer. You can uninstall more than one package at a time.