IBM® Installation Manager installs, updates, and
modifies packages. You can use it to manage the IBM applications,
or packages, that it installs on your computer. With Installation
Manager, you can install packages, track what you installed, determine
what is available to install, and organize installation directories.
Installation Manager provides tools to update and modify packages,
manage the licenses for your packages, and uninstall packages.
You
can use the six wizards in Installation Manager to complete these
tasks:
- Install a package by using the Install wizard.
In the wizard, you can accept the defaults, or you can complete a
custom installation. Before you begin the installation, you can view
a complete summary of your selections. You can install one or more
packages at a time.
- Update packages by using the Update wizard.
This wizard searches for available updates to packages that you installed.
An update might be a released fix, a new feature, or a new version
of the product. Details of the update are provided in the wizard.
You can choose whether to apply an update.
- Modify certain elements of an installed package by using the Modify wizard.
During the first installation of a package, you select the features
to install. Later, if you need other features, you can use the Modify
wizard to add them to your package. You can also remove features and
add or remove languages.
- Set up licenses for your packages by using the Manage
Licenses wizard. You can change your trial license to a
full license, set up servers for floating licenses, and select the
type of license for each package.
- Revert a package to a previous version by using the Roll
Back wizard.
- Remove a package from your computer by using the Uninstall wizard.
You can uninstall more than one package at a time.
Note: For Rational Focal Point version
6.5, you can use IBM Installation Manager to
only install, update, modify, and uninstall the product. With this
version, IBM Installation Manager does
not support other activities, such as managing licenses, and rolling
back versions.
For more information about Installation Manager,
see
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/install/v1r2/index.jsp- If you use the Arabic locale, by default, the IBM Installation Manager user
interface (UI) is not displayed with the right-to-left direction.
To set the IBM Installation Manager UI
with the right-to-left direction, start the IBM Installation Manager by
specifying the properties -nl ar.
- If you use Hebrew locale, you must start the IBM Installation Manager by
specifying the properties -nl en. IBM Installation Manager does
not support Hebrew locale.