Part of planning entails making decisions about installation locations,
working with other applications, extending Eclipse, upgrading, migrating,
and configuring help content.
Installation locations
IBM® Installation
Manager retrieves product packages from specified repositories and installs
the products into selected locations, referred to as package groups.
Coexistence
Some products are designed to coexist and share functions when
they are installed in the same package group. A package group is a location
where you can install one or more software product packages.
Upgrade and coexistence information
You cannot install the latest version of the product into
an existing installation of the same product from the previous major
release. If you have Agent Controller installed, you should uninstall
it before attempting to install the latest version of the product.
If you have the IBM Rational License Key Administrator installed,
you should save its settings before attempting to install the latest
version of the product.
Installing with your Eclipse instance
The product package that you install using IBM Installation Manager comes with a version
of Eclipse, which is the base platform of this product package. If you already
have Eclipse installed on your workstation, you can add your product package
directly to that Eclipse installation and extend the functions of the Eclipse
integrated development environment (IDE).
Extending an existing Eclipse IDE
When you install the product package or packages, you can
choose to extend an Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE)
already installed on your computer by adding to the functions that
your new product or products contain.
Web-based help content
The Rational® Performance Tester help
system is configured to use remote help so that you can pull in content
from the Web dynamically. With remote help, you always have the latest
content available from within your product.