WAS v8.0 > Install the application serving environment > Distributed operating systems

Install and using the WebSphere Customization Toolbox

The WebSphere Customization Toolbox include tools for managing, configuring, and migrating various parts of your WAS environment.

New feature: The WebSphere Customization Toolbox for WAS v8.0 includes tools for customizing various parts of your WAS environment.

• We can launch the Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool to configure your web server plug-ins for any operating system on which the WebSphere Customization Toolbox can be installed.

  We can also use the WCT command-line utility to launch the command-line version of the Plug-ins Configuration Tool, the pct tool.

• We can launch the Profile Management Tool (z/OS only) on an Intel-based Windows or Linux operating system to generate jobs and instructions for creating profiles for WAS on z/OS systems.
• We can launch the z/OS Migration Management Tool on an Intel-based Windows or Linux operating system to generate definitions for migrating WAS for z/OS profiles.

New feature:

Procedure

Perform one of the following procedures:
• Install and use the WebSphere Customization Toolbox GUI to invoke the following tools.
  • Profile Management Tool (z/OS only)

    The Profile Management Tool (z/OS only) allows you to build and process definitions for creating WAS profiles.

    Process the definitions results in the generation of customization jobs that you then run on the z/OS system. We can upload directly to the z/OS system as you process a definition, or you can save it locally and upload it to the z/OS system later.

  • z/OS Migration Management Tool

    The z/OS Migration Management Tool allows you to build and process definitions for migrating WAS profiles.

    Process the definitions results in the generation of customization jobs that you then run on the z/OS system. We can upload directly to the z/OS system as you process a definition, or you can save it locally and upload it to the z/OS system later.

  • Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool

    The Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool allows you to configure your web server plug-ins on distributed and Windows operating systems.

• Use the WCT command-line utility to invoke a WebSphere Customization Toolbox (WCT) command-line tool.

What to do next

Restriction:

We cannot use of some combinations of the GUI customization tools for IBM WAS v8.0 concurrently.

• We cannot have the following tools or two instances of either tool open at the same time:
  • Profile Management Tool
  • Configuration Migration Tool

• We cannot have the following tools within the WebSphere Customization Toolbox or two instances of any one tool open at the same time:
  • Web Server Plug-ins Configuration Tool
  • Profile Management Tool (z/OS only), which runs on Intel-based Windows or Linux operating systems
  • z/OS Migration Management Tool, which runs on Intel-based Windows or Linux operating systems

We can use one tool from one of these two sets and one tool from the other set at the same time.

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