Downloading the installation media

Download the installation media from Jazz™.net. You must correctly extract the contents of the compressed files before you can install the software.

About this task

Download and extract the installation media.

Important: For Linux For SolarisFor AIX 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

  1. Go to the Rational® Connector download page on Jazz.net
  2. 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\SAPC_INSTALL_IMAGE
      • For Linux For SolarisFor AIX /tmp/SAPC_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\SAPC_INSTALL_IMAGE\SAP\disk1
      • For Linux For SolarisFor AIX/tmp/SAPC_INSTALL_IMAGE/SAP/disk1

Results

You extracted the installation files for the software.

What to do next

Install the connector software, see Installation tasks.

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