Rational Programming Patterns

Installation methods for Rational Programming Patterns

Four installation methods are available.

You can install Rational® Programming Patterns from:
  • an installation disk.

    With this method, you have the physical disks containing the installation files, and you install Rational Programming Patterns on your own workstation.

  • a downloaded electronic image on your workstation.

    With this method, you download the installation files from IBM® Passport Advantage® and you install Rational Programming Patterns on your own workstation.

  • a downloaded electronic image on a shared drive.

    With this method, you place the electronic image on a shared drive so that users in your company can access the installation files of Rational Programming Patterns from a single location. It is also useful when you must install in silent mode on several user systems.

  • a repository on an HTTP server.

    You can place the Rational Programming Patterns installation package, the Rational Developer for System z® package, and the Rational Team Concert™ package, in a single directory on HTTP Web server. This directory is named a repository.

    To place the installation files on an HTTP Web server, you must use a utility application: IBM Packaging Utility. This application is provided with the Developer for System z installation media on the Rational Enterprise Deployment disk. For more information, see the "Rational Developer for System z Installation Guide", "Appendix C IBM Packaging Utility".

    See also the "Rational Developer for System z Installation Guide", "Chapter 5. Installing Developer for System z". subchapter "Installation tasks summary", section "Overview: Installing Developer for System z from a repository on an HTTP Web server" and "Overview: Placing Developer for System z on an HTTP Web server".

Note on the installation in silent mode:

If you install from an electronic image or a repository, you can run Installation Manager in silent mode to install Rational Programming Patterns. You can then use a batch process to install, update, modify, and uninstall packages through scripts. If you are an administrator, it enables you to customize the installation on the developers' workstations.

When you run Installation Manager in silent mode, its user interface is not available. So you use a response file instead to input the commands required to install the package. An install.xml sample response file is available in the InstallerImage_win32 subdirectory of the client and in the InstallerImage_system subdirectory (where system is aix, linux_s390, or win32) of the server. You can use it as is or modify it to your own specifications.

For more information, see the "Rational Developer for System z Installation Guide", "Chapter 5. Installing Developer for System z", subchapter "Silent installation".


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