Install the WebSphere® Customization Toolbox to
customize your WebSphere eXtreme Scale for z/OS® environment.
About this task
The WebSphere Customization
Tools is a workstation-based graphical tool you use to create customized
jobs that build WebSphere eXtreme Scale for z/OS runtime environments.
Procedure
- Use FTP to copy the xs.wct extension
file from your z/OS system
to the workstation on which you are installing the WebSphere Customization Tools. The extension files are stored in the following
z/OS directory depending on the version of WebSphere Application Server that you are using.
- Download and install the latest version of the WebSphere Customization Toolbox.
- Upload the xs.wct file to the WebSphere Customization Toolbox application.
- Start the WebSphere Customization Toolbox application
on your workstation.
- Click .
- From the WebSphere Customization Toolbox Extension
panel, click Install.
- From the Source Archive File panel, click Browse,
navigate to the directory in which you copied the xs.wct file
in step 1, and click Open.
- Click Next on the Source Archive
panel.
- Click Next on the Extension summary
panel, and click Finish on the WebSphere Customization Toolbox Extension panel.
- The Install Successful panel
is displayed, click Finish.
- The installed extension is
displayed in the WebSphere Customization Toolbox Extensions panel,
click Finish.
- Click Yes to
restart the WebSphere Customization Toolbox.
- From the WebSphere Customization Toolbox Extension panel, click Install.
- From the Source Archive
File panel, click Browse, navigate to the directory
in which you copied the xspf.wct file in step
1, and click Open.
- Click Next on
the Summary panel.
- Click Next on
the Extension summary panel, and click Finish on
the WebSphere Customization Toolbox Extension panel
What to do next
After you upload both extension files and restart the WebSphere Customization Toolbox, you can use the Profile
Management Tool to generate customization definitions for WebSphere eXtreme Scale for z/OS. See Generating customization definitions for
more information.