You can use the IBM® Installation
Manager from the command line to update the product with the fix packs
that are available for WebSphere® eXtreme Scale product
offerings.
Before you begin
Upgrade your appliance firmware
before updating the WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client.
For more information, see Updating the firmware.
Contact the IBM Software Support
Center for information about upgrades for WebSphere eXtreme Scale stand-alone
or WebSphere eXtreme Scale for WebSphere Application Server product offerings. The
most current information is available from the IBM Software Support Center and Fix
Central.
IBM Installation
Manager is used to apply product maintenance to the following product
offerings:
- WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client in a stand-alone
environment
- WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client forWebSphere Application Server Version 6.1
- WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client for WebSphere Application Server Version 7
- WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client for WebSphere Application Server Version 8
About this task
Restriction: You cannot use the Installation
Manager to upgrade an installation and add or remove the full WebSphere Application Server
profile feature .
Procedure
- For a list of interim fixes and fix packs that are available
forWebSphere eXtreme Scale 8.5 and specific
information about each fix, perform the following actions.
- Go to Fix
Central.
- Select WebSphere as
the product group.
- Select WebSphere eXtreme Scale as the product.
- Select 8.5 as the installed version.
- Select your operating system as the platform, and click Continue.
- Select Browse for fixes, and click Continue.
- Click More Information under each fix to view information
about the fix.
- Recommendation: Make a note of the name of the fix pack
that you would like to install.
- Update WebSphere eXtreme Scale Version
8.5 with the fix pack using the following procedure.
- Download the file that contains the fix pack from Fix Central,
and use local updating.
You can download a compressed file that
contains the fix pack from Fix Central. Each compressed fix-pack file
contains an Installation Manager repository for the fix pack and usually
has a .zip extension. After downloading and extracting the fix-pack
file, use Installation Manager to update WebSphere Application Server Version 8.x
with the fix pack.
- To download the fix pack, perform the following actions:
- Go to Fix
Central.
- Select WebSphere as
the product group.
- Select WebSphere eXtreme Scale as
the product.
- Select 8.5 as the installed version.
- Select your operating system as the platform, and click Continue.
- Select Browse for fixes, and click Continue.
- Select the fix pack that you want to download, and click Continue.
- Select your download options, and click Continue.
- Click I agree to agree to the terms and conditions.
- Click Download now to download the fix pack.
- Transfer the compressed file in binary format to the system on
which it will be installed.
- Extract the compressed repository files to a directory on your
system.
- To install a fix pack from a downloaded file, perform the following
actions:
- Log on to your system.
- Stop all processes that are running in your environment. To stop
all processes that are running in your WebSphere Application Server environment, see Command-line utilities.
- Change to the Installation_Manager_binaries/eclipse/tools directory,
where Installation_Manager_binaries is
the installation root directory for the Installation Manager.
- Install the fix pack.
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./imcl install offering_ID_offering_version,optional_feature_ID
-installationDirectory product_installation_location
-repositories location_of_expanded_files
-acceptLicense
imcl.exe install offering_ID_offering_version,optional_feature_ID
-installationDirectory product_installation_location
-repositories location_of_expanded_files
-acceptLicense
Tips: - The offering_version, which optionally can
be attached to the offering ID with an underscore, is a specific version
of the offering to install (8.5.0.20110503_0200 for
example).
- If offering_version is not specified,
the latest version of the offering and all interim fixes for
that version are installed.
- If offering_version is specified, the specified
version of the offering and no interim fixes for that version
are installed.
The offering version can be found attached to the end of the
offering ID with an underscore when you run the following command
against the repository:
imcl listAvailablePackages -repositories source_repository
- You can also specify none, recommended or all with
the -installFixes argument to indicate which interim
fixes you want installed with the offering.
- If the offering version is not specified, the -installFixes option
defaults to all.
- If the offering version is specified, the -installFixes option
defaults to none.
- You can add a list of features that are separated by commas.
If a list of features is not specified, the default features are installed.
- Optional: List all installed packages to verify the installation:
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./imcl listInstalledPackages -long
imcl.exe listInstalledPackages -long