This topic provides the instructions for installing
InfoSphere Data Architect.
Before you begin
In the instructions that follow, it is assumed that you
started your installation from the launchpad.
About this task
To install
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect, complete
the following steps:
- Start the
launchpad.
The file that you run is different, depending
on whether you are installing as an administrator or as a non-administrator.
- In the launchpad dialog-box, click Install Product for
an administrative installation.
Note: If a new version
of Installation Manager is
found, you are prompted to confirm that you want to install it before
you can continue. Click OK to proceed. Installation Manager automatically
installs the new version, stops, restarts, and resumes.
IBM® Installation Manager starts.
- Ensure that IBM InfoSphere Data Architect is
selected.
- You can install updates at the same time that you install
the base product package, if updates are available. To search for
updates to the packages, click Check for Other Versions
and Extensions. Installation Manager searches
for updates at the predefined IBM update
repository for the product package. It also searches any repository
locations that you have set.
- To learn more about the packages that you can install,
click the package name. A description of the package is displayed
in the Details pane.
- Click Next.
- On the Licenses page, read the license agreements for the
selected packages. On the left-hand side of the License page,
click each package version to display its license agreement.
- If you agree to the terms of all of the license agreements,
click I accept the terms of the license agreements.
- Click Next to continue.
- If you are installing Installation Manager:
On the Location page, type the path for the shared resources directory in
the Shared Resources Directory field, or accept
the default path. If you are installing on Linux®, ensure that you do not
include any spaces in the directory path. The shared resources
directory contains resources that can be shared by one or more package
groups.
Important: You can specify the shared
resources directory only at the time that you install Installation Manager. Use
your largest disk for this to help ensure adequate space for the shared
resources of future packages. You cannot change the directory location
unless you uninstall all packages.
- Click Next to continue.
- On the Location page, create a package group to
install the product package into, or select an package group. A package
group represents a directory in which packages share resources with
other packages in the same group. To create a new package group:
- Click Create a new package group.
- Type the path for the installation directory for the
package group. (If you are installing on Linux, ensure that you do not
include any spaces in the directory path.) The name
for the package group is created automatically.
After you select a package group, click Next.
- On the next Location page, you can choose to extend an
Eclipse IDE already installed on your system, adding the functionality
in the packages that you are installing. This page is not
available if you selected to share a package group in the last step.
- If you do not want to extend an Eclipse IDE, click Next to
continue.
- To extend an existing Eclipse IDE:
- Select Extend an existing Eclipse.
- In the Eclipse IDE field, type or navigate
to the location of the folder that contains the eclipse executable
file (eclipse.exe or eclipse.bin). Installation manager will check
if the Eclipse IDE version is valid for the package that you are installing.
The Eclipse IDE JVM field displays the Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM) for the
IDE that you specified.
- Click Next to continue.
- On the Features page under Languages,
select the languages for the package group. The corresponding national
language translations for the user interface and documentation for
the product package will be installed.
- On the next Features page, select
the package features that you want to install.
- Optional: To see the dependency relationships
between features, select Show Dependencies.
- Optional: Click a feature to view its brief
description under Details.
- Select or clear features in the packages. Installation Manager will
automatically enforce any dependencies with other features and display
updated download size and disk space requirements for the installation.
- When you are finished selecting features, click Next to
continue.
- On the Summary page, review your choices before installing
the product package. If you want to change the choices that you made
on previous pages, click Back, and make your
changes. When you are satisfied with your installation choices, click Install to
install the package. A progress indicator shows the
percentage of the installation completed.
- When the installation process is complete, a message confirms
the success of the process.
- Click View log file to open the
installation log file for the current session in a new window. You
must close the Installation Log window to continue.
- In the Install Package wizard, select whether you want
the product to start when you exit.
- Click Finish to launch the selected
package. The Install Package wizard closes and you are returned to
the Start page of Installation Manager.
- Close Installation Manager.