You can install the Rational® Programming
Patterns for System z® Client
on Windows® Vista, Windows XP Professional, or Windows 7 Professional, from
a disk or from an electronic image. Installing from the electronic
image enables you to customize the installation.
Before you begin
IBM® Rational Developer for System z 8.0.1 and Rational Team Concert™ 3.0 Clients
must already be installed
Procedure
- To install the Rational Programming
Patterns for System z Client,
you must either:
- Insert its installation disk into your CD drive.
- Or download its electronic image from IBM Passport Advantage® and extract all the files from its zipped contents.
The contents of the installation disk and the unzipped
electronic image are the same:- A docs directory, with relevant documentation,
- An RPPz801 directory, with the following
contents:
- A disk1 directory, which contains the Rational Programming Patterns
for System z client repository.
- An InstallerImage_win32 directory, which
contains the Rational Programming
Patterns for System z installation
programs.
This directory also contains an install.xml sample
response file. You use a response file when you run Installation Manager
in silent mode since its user interface is not available then. The
response file contains the commands required to install the package.
You can use the install.xml file as-is to perform
silent installations of Rational Programming
Patterns for System z,
or modify to your own specifications. For more information, refer
to the Rational Developer
for System z Installation
Guide, Chapter 5 Installing Developer for System z, subchapter Silent
installation.
- An im directory, which contains the zipped
installation file of IBM Installation
Manager.
- An installRPPz.bat file, the batch command
file which launches the Client installation process.
- Double-click the installRPPz.bat file
to execute it. It opens IBM Installation
Manager with all the preferences and selections already entered.
- To perform a standard installation, you just need to click Next at
the bottom of each page to validate the predefined selections. Click Install on
the last page to start installing.
Important: The Rational Programming Patterns
for System z Client must
be installed in the same package group as the Rational Developer for System z 8.0.1 and Rational Team Concert 3.0 Clients.
Notes for administrators: Using the electronic
image, you can customize the installation on the developers'
workstations. To do so, you must use the IBM Packaging
Utility and start the installation in silent mode. Running Installation
Manager in silent mode is helpful because you can use a batch process
to install, update, modify, and uninstall packages through scripts.
For more information, refer to the Rational Developer for System z Installation Guide, Appendix
C IBM Packaging Utility and Chapter
5 Installing Developer for System
z, subchapter Silent installation.
Using
the electronic image, you can install the Rational Programming Patterns for System z Client on:
- A shared drive, to make the Rational Programming
Patterns for System z installation
files available to all developers from a single location.
- An HTTP Web server. You can place the Rational Programming Patterns for System z install package, as
well as the Rational Developer
for System z and Rational Team Concert packages,
in a single repository. Refer to 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 a HTTP Web
server.