Upgrading from Rational Publishing Engine 1.1.2 to Rational Publishing Engine 1.1.2.1 or 1.1.2.2

IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine uses IBM Installation Manager to upgrade Rational Publishing Engine 1.1.2 to 1.1.2.1 or 1.1.2.2. When your role is a data administrator, document designer, or document generator, you can complete this task to upgrade Rational Publishing Engine on your local computer.

Procedure

To upgrade only the Rational Publishing Engine client:

  1. Close all other applications.
  2. On a local server, extract the Rational Publishing Engine update package to a directory that you can use as the update repository.
  3. On each computer with Rational Publishing Engine installed, start Installation Manager. Click Start > All Programs > IBM Installation Manager > IBM Installation Manager.
  4. In Installation Manager, click File > Preferences > Add Repository.
  5. Enter the path to the local update repository and click OK. Click OK to close the Preferences window.
  6. Click Update. The Installation Manager checks for updates. If a new version of Installation Manager is available, you must install it before you can continue the Rational Publishing Engine installation.
  7. Click Yes at the prompt to update Installation Manager. If your Installation Manager is current, go to step 9.
  8. When the update completes, click OK to restart Installation Manager.
  9. Click Update.
  10. On the Update Packages page, select the package group Rational Publishing Engine and click Next.
  11. Select the fix pack release and click Next.
  12. Accept the license agreement and click Next.
  13. Select the features to install and click Next.
  14. Select your preference option for the Help System and click Next.
  15. In the Review summary information page, click Update.
  16. When the update completes and you are informed that packages were installed successfully, click Finish to close the Update Packages windows.
  17. Close Installation Manager.

Upgrading Rational Publishing Engine, web services, and data services

Server administrators can upgrade the Rational Publishing Engine client and web applications for remote document generation.

About this task

There were no changes to the data services after the IBM Rational Publishing Engine 1.1.2 release. If you are upgrading to Rational Publishing Engine 1.1.2.1 or 1.1.2.2, you are not required to deploy the data services again. However, you must select the data services adapters when you reinstall Rational Publishing Engine.

Procedure

  1. Uninstall Rational Publishing Engine.
    1. Start Installation Manager. Click Start > All Programs > IBM Installation Manager > IBM Installation Manager.
    2. Click Uninstall.
    3. Complete the Uninstall wizard to uninstall Rational Publishing Engine.
  2. Stop the web services application.
    1. Log in to the application server administrative console.
    2. Select the Rational Publishing Engine web services application.
    3. Stop the application.
    For more specific steps on stopping the web services application for Rational Publishing Engine, see the topics for each application server:
  3. Install Rational Publishing Engine 1.1.2.2.
    1. In Installation Manager, click File > Preferences > Add Repository.
    2. Enter the path to the local update repository and click OK to save the repository.
    3. Click OK to close the Preferences window.
    4. Click Install and continue through the Install wizard.
    5. In the Features window, select RPE Web Service and Data Services Adapters in addition to the Launcher, Document Studio, and any other feature selections you choose to install.
    6. Complete the Install wizard to install Rational Publishing Engine.
  4. Deploy the web services application for Rational Publishing Engine 1.1.2.2.

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