IBM® Installation Manager is a
program for installing, updating, and modifying packages. It helps you manage
the IBM applications, or packages, that it installs on your computer. Installation Manager does
more than install packages: It helps you keep track of what you have installed,
determine what is available for you to install, and organize installation
directories.
Installation Manager provides tools that help you keep packages up to date,
modify packages, manage the licenses for your packages, and uninstall packages.
Installation Manager includes six wizards that make it easy to maintain
packages:
- The Install wizard walks you through the installation
process. You can install a package by simply accepting the defaults or you
can modify the default settings to create a custom installation. Before you
install, you get a complete summary of your selections throughout the wizard.
Using the wizard you can install one or more packages at one time.
- The Update wizard searches for available updates
to packages that you have installed. An update might be a released fix, a
new feature, or a new version of the product. Details of the contents of the
update are provided in the wizard. You can choose whether to apply an update.
- The Modify wizard helps you modify certain elements
of a package that you have already installed. During the first installation
of the package, you select the features that you want to install. Later, if
you require other features, you can use the modify packages wizard to add
them to your package. You can also remove features and add or remove languages.
- The Manage Licenses wizard helps you set up the licenses
for your packages. Use this wizard to change your trial license to a full
license, to set up your servers for floating licenses, and to select which
type of license to use for each package.
- The Roll Back wizard helps you to revert to a previous
version of a package.
- The Uninstall wizard removes a package from your
computer. You can uninstall more than one package at a time.
For more information about IBM Installation Manager, visit the Installation
information center.