Start Installation Manager

Overview

1. Use a response file to start Installation Manager in wizard mode
2. Start Installation Manager in another language
3. Start Installation Manager with the -secureStorageFile option
4. Start Installation Manager with the -enterpriseDeploymentTools option
5. System Requirements

Overview

Operating system	Start commands - Admin	Start commands - NonAdmin	Group
UNIX	/opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/imcl -c /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/IBMIM	/user_home/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/imcl -c /user_home/IBM/InstallationManager/IBMIM	/user_home/IBM/InstallationManager_Group/eclipse
OS X	/Applications/IBM/Installation Manager/eclipse	/Users/user/var/ibm/Installation Manager/eclipse	/Users/user/var/ibm/Installation Manager Group/eclipse
Windows	C:\Program Files [(x86)]\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse	C:\Users\user\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse

Use a response file to start Installation Manager in wizard mode

Start Installation Manager in wizard mode using a response file. Run the command to start Installation Manager with the input option and response file. Based on the commands in the response file, Installation Manager starts in one of these wizards: Install, Update, Modify, Rollback, or Uninstall. If the response file does not contain the commands for the wizards, Installation Manager opens to the main screen. Preference and repository settings from the response file take precedence over settings in Installation Manager.

cd /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse
./IBMIM input response_file

Start Installation Manager in another language

Languages and language codes supported by Installation Manager:

Arabic (ar), Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR), Catalan (ca), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hebrew ( iw), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (in), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Lithuanian (lt), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Russian (ru), Simplified Chinese (zh_CN), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Thai (th), Traditional Chinese (zh_HK), Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW), Turkish (tr)

Some languages support only partial translations. When a language is partially translated, the non-translated content is presented in English.

Start Installation Manager with the -nl option and abbreviated language code. Installation Manager opens in wizard mode in the language that you specified.

cd install_dir/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse
./IBMIM -nl language_code

Start Installation Manager with the -secureStorageFile option

Start Installation Manager in wizard mode with the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options. The credentials that we use for this instance of Installation Manager are stored in the secure storage file. For information about these options, see imcl command-line arguments.

Start Installation Manager with the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options.

cd install_dir/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse
./IBMIM -secureStorageFile storage_file -masterPasswordFile master_password_file

When you store credentials for a repository, the credentials are saved to the secure storage file. Starting in version 1.7, if we do not specify the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options, Installation Manager uses the Equinox Secure Storage mechanism from Eclipse by default to store credentials and generate a default storage file that is secured with a predefined password. In older versions, a key ring file was used to store the credentials by default. The key ring file is not supported by version 1.6.2 and later. After you upgrade to version 1.7 or later, we cannot authenticate with secure storage files that were created in an earlier version. You must re-create those secure storage files.

Start Installation Manager with the -enterpriseDeploymentTools option

In version 1.7.2 and later, we can start Installation Manager with the -enterpriseDeploymentTools option. When we use the -enterpriseDeploymentTools option, we can select what deployment tool to start. Start the tool to generate a response file by recording the installation without installing the packages, or we can generate a response file for the installed packages.

Run the command to start Installation Manager with the -enterpriseDeploymentTools option. In the dialog that opens, select the enterprise deployment tool that we want to start.

cd install_dir/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse
./IBMIM -enterpriseDeploymentTools

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