Overview – Main Steps

The following main steps are required to deploy the RPM Web Services on WebSphere and they must be performed respecting the specified order.

Note: Paths must be adjusted when operating on UNIX environments.
  1. Install WebSphere 5.1 or 6.0.
  2. Start the WebSphere Administrative Console.
  3. Set the WebSphere variables for the DB2 database.
  4. Create the authentication alias for servadm.
  5. Create the JDBC providers for DB2 Universal JDBC Driver Provider
  6. Create the data source jdbc/RPMDATASOURCE.
  7. Deploy the EAR file.
  8. Start the RPMEAR enterprise application.
  9. Optionally tune the RPM Web Services runtime parameters