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IBM Installation Manager
IBM Installation Manager is a program that helps install the IBM Integration Designer packages on your workstation. It also helps you update, modify, and uninstall this and other packages that install. A package can be a product, a group of components, or a single component that is designed to be installed by the Installation Manager.
IBM Installation Manager offers a number of time-saving features. It keeps track of what you are about to install, software components that you have already installed, and components that are available for you to install. It searches for updates so you know that you are installing the latest version of an IBM Integration Designer product package. Installation Manager also provides tools for managing licenses for the product packages that it installs. It provides tools for updating and modifying packages. You can also use Installation Manager to uninstall product packages.
Installation Manager comprises seven wizards that make it easy to maintain your product packages through their lifecycles:
- The Install Packages wizard walks you through the installation process. You can install a product package by simply accepting the defaults, or you can modify the default settings to create a custom installation. Before install a product package, you are provided with a complete summary of the selections that you have made throughout the wizard. With the wizard you can install one or more product packages at the same time.
- The Update Packages wizard searches for available updates to product packages that you have installed. An update might be a released fix, a new feature, or a new version of the product. Details of the contents of the update are provided in the wizard. You can choose whether to apply an update.
- With the Modify Packages wizard, you can modify specific elements of a package that you have already installed. During your initial installation of the product package, you select the features you want to install. If you find later that you require other features, you can use the Modify Packages wizard to add them to your product package installation. You can also remove features, and add or remove languages.
- The Manage Licenses wizard helps you to set up the licenses for your packages. Use this wizard to change your trial license to a full license, to set up your servers for floating licenses, and to select which type of license to use for each package. This wizard is not used for the IBM Integration Designer packages.
- The Import wizard helps you to add existing packages that were installed using installation tools other than Installation Manager so that they can be managed by Installation Manager.
- With the Roll Back Packages wizard you can revert to a previously installed version of an eligible package.
- The Uninstall Packages wizard helps you to remove a product package from your computer. You can uninstall more than one package at a time.