Updating installed product packages

To find and install product package updates, complete the following steps:

1. Start IBM Installation Manager.
2. Optional: Mount the media or extract the contents of the compressed file to a temporary directory to create a local repository. If you are not using the default IBM update repository, you can add a repository in IBM Installation Manager to specify the location of a local copy of the product package.
   1. Click File > Preferences.
   2. In the Preferences window, click Add Repository.
   3. Enter the media_root_path\disk1\diskTag.inf path in the Repositories field, and click OK.
   4. Click OK again to close the Preferences window.
3. On the Start page of IBM Installation Manager, click Update.
4. Optional: If a required version of IBM Installation Manager is not detected on your computer, you must continue with the update of Installation Manager. Follow the instructions in the wizard to complete the update.
5. In the Update wizard, select the product package group that you want to update or click the Update All check box and click Next. Installation Manager searches for updates in its repositories and the predefined update sites for the product.
6. If updates for a package are found, they are displayed in the Updates list below their corresponding package and only the recommended updates are displayed by default. Complete the following steps:
   1. To display all the updates that are found for the available packages, click Show all.
   2. To learn more about an update, click the update and review its description under Details. If information about the update is available, click More info at the end of the description to open the information in a browser. Review this information before you install the update.
   3. Select the updates that you want to install or click Select Recommended to restore the default selections. Updates that have a dependency relationship are automatically selected or cleared.
   4. Click Next.
7. On the Licenses page, read the license agreements for the selected updates. On the left side of the License page, the list of licenses for the updates you selected is displayed; click each item to display the license agreement text. If you agree to the terms of all the license agreements, click I accept the terms of the license agreements and then Next.
8. On the Features page, select the features that you want to update and complete the following steps:
   1. To learn more about a feature, click the feature and review the brief description under Details.
   2. If you want to see the dependency relationships between features, select Show Dependencies. When you click a feature, any features that depend on it and any features that are its dependents are shown in the Dependencies window. As you select or exclude features in the packages, Installation Manager will automatically enforce any dependencies with other features and display updated download size and disk space requirements for the installation.
   3. Click Next
9. On the Summary page, review your choices before you install the updates.
   1. If you want to change the choices you made on previous pages, click Back, and make your changes.
   2. When you are satisfied, click Update to download and install the updates. A progress indicator shows the percentage of the installation completed.
10. Optional: When the update process completes, a message that confirms the success of the process is displayed near the top of the page. Click View log file to open the log file for the current session in a new window. You must close the Installation Log window to continue.
11. Click Finish to close the wizard.
12. Optional: Only the features that you already installed are updated with the Update wizard. If the update contains new features that you want to install, you must run the Modify wizard and select the new features to install from the feature selection panel.