Rolling back the WebSphere security extension by using Installation Manager silent mode

You can revert to the previous version of the Jazz™ for Service Management extension for IBM® WebSphere® by using Installation Manager GUI mode.

About this task

Important: You can only roll back or upgrade a fix pack that has been applied to an existing Jazz for Service Management environment. Only incremental rollback and You cannot roll back to a previous version if you performed a clean installation of a base and fix pack refresh release.

Procedure

Browse to the location of the response files.
- JazzSM_Image_Home/responsefiles/platform_name directory, after you obtained Jazz for Service Management Version 1.1.3 release installation media on DVDs or from IBM Passport Advantage®
- JazzSM_Home/responsefiles/platform_name directory, after you obtained the delta package from IBM Fix Central.
platform_name is the name of the supported platform, that is, unix or windows
Make a backup of the rollback response file, that is, rollback_jazzsm_was_extension_response.xml.

Open the response file, edit it for the following parameters, and save the file.

Home for existing IBM WebSphere installation

Only edit the value for the installationLocation attribute if the installation home is different from the default value.

<profile id='IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5' installLocation='/opt/IBM/WebSphere'/>

<profile id='IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5' installLocation='C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer'>

Software packages to roll back

<rollback>
<!-- 
Provide version='1.1.0.20130215-0045', if want to rollback offering to 1.1 level
	Provide version='1.1.1.20131218-1259', if want to rollback offering to 1.1.0.1 level
-->
<!-- JazzSM extension for WebSphere offering selected for rollback -->
offering id='com.ibm.tivoli.tacct.psc.install.was85.extension' profile='IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5' version='version_number' features=''/>
</rollback>

version_number refers to the version to roll back.

Attention: To roll back to a previous version, you must modify the file and update the version_number. For example, to roll back to Version 1.1 of the security extension, specify version='1.1.0.20130215-0045'.

Run the following command for your platform to silently roll back to the previous version of the security extension:
- ```
./imcl input path_response_file -log path_log_file -acceptLicense
```
- ```
imcl.exe input path_response_file -log path_log_file -acceptLicense
```
- path_response_file refers to the path and response file name.
- path_log_file refers to the path and file name for the silent uninstallation log file.