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 does more than install packages: It helps you
keep track of what you have installed, determine what is available for you
to install, and organize installation directories.
Installation Manager provides tools that help you keep packages up to date,
modify the packages, manage the licenses for your packages, and uninstall
the packages from your system
Installation Manager includes six wizards that make it easy to maintain
packages through their lifecycles:
- The Install Packages 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 are provided with a complete summary of your selections throughout
the wizard. Using the wizard you can install one or more packages at one time.
- The Update Packages wizard will search 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
- With the Modify Packages wizard you can 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 find
later that you require other features, you can use the modify packages wizard
to add them 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 Packages wizard enables you to revert
to a previous version of a package.
- The Uninstall Packages wizard will remove a package
from your computer. You can uninstall more than one package at a time.