This topic provides the steps necessary to use the installation
wizard and perform a silent installation.
About this task
Use these steps to perform a silent installation, which uses
the installation wizard to install the product. Instead of displaying
a user interface, the silent installation provides interaction between
you and the wizard by reading all of your responses from a file that
you must customize.
Procedure
- Verify that the host server jobs are
started on your iSeries server. The host server jobs allow the installation
code to run on iSeries. Enter this command on a CL command line: STRHOSTSVR
SERVER(*ALL)
- Verify that your user profile has the
*ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
- Place the WebSphere Application Server Supplements disc
in the disc drive of your iSeries server.
- Customize the options response file.
- Locate the sample options response file. The file name
is setup.response in the operating system platform
directory on the product CD-ROM.
- Use the Copy (CPY) command to create a copy of the setup.response file
from the disk. For example:
CPY OBJ('/QOPT/WEBSPHERE/AppClient/setup.response') TODIR('/MYDIR')
Where:
QOPT
is the disk mount point.
WEBSPHERE is the disk volume label.
/AppClient
is the product directory on the disk. This will be referred to in
later steps.
Note: For DVD media, an additional directory prefix
is required before the product directory that reflects the operating
system and architecture of the installation. Using the previous example,
the following installation path applies when you use CD-ROM media:
CPY OBJ('/QOPT/WEBSPHERE/AppClient/setup.response') TODIR('/MYDIR')
However,
the following installation path applies when you use DVD media:
CPY OBJ('/QOPT/WEBSPHERE/os400_ppc64/AppClient/setup.response') TODIR('/MYDIR')
- Edit the copy of the file using EDTF from the i5/OS
command line or using Wordpad from a mapped drive. Accept
the license agreement by making the following change in the response
file: -OPT silentInstallLicenseAcceptance="true' This
is the only required change in the response file. Read the information
in the response file to determine if you want to change any other
options.
- Save the file.
- Invoke the installation program for
WebSphere Application Client for i5/OS. To do this, run
the INSTALL command from Qshell :
- From the i5/OS command line, start a Qshell session: STRQSH
- Change directory to the AppClient subdirectory of CD-ROM
or DVD-ROM drive: cd /QOPT/WEBSPHERE/AppClient OR cd
/QOPT/WebSphere/os400_ppc64/AppClient
- Issue the INSTALL command to start
the installation program: install –options /MYDIR/setup.response
Important: Do not exit the Qshell session (PF3) until
the installation has completed. Doing so might cause the installation
to stop prematurely.
Results
You installed application clients silently by using the response
file.
Attention: Troubleshooting an invalid response
file name that was submitted during the silent installation. If
you get a response file error, the response file name may have been
typed incorrectly. Verify that this is the problem by removing the -silent command
and leaving -options <responsefile>. You may get a pop-up
window or command line error stating that the wizard cannot continue
because of the following error: The response file was not found (1001)
(403). The response file that you are passing cannot be found on the
system. Make sure that the path is correct, with no spelling mistakes,
and try the installation again.
What to do next
Use the installation verification utility
to verify a successful installation. If the installation is not successful,
fix the error as indicated in the installation error message. For
example, if you do not have enough disk space, add more space, and
reinstall the Application Client.