You can search for product updates and install the updates for
your IBM product.
Before you begin
By default, Internet access is required unless your repository preferences
points to a local update site.
Each installed package has the location
embedded for its default IBM® update repository. For Installation Manager to search
the IBM update
repository locations for the installed packages, select the preference Search
service repositories during installation and updates on the Repositories
preference page. This preference is selected by default.
See the Installation
Manager help for more information.
Important: - Close all programs that were installed using Installation Manager before
updating.
- During the update process, Installation Manager might prompt you for the
location of the repository for the base version of the package. If you installed
the product from CDs or other media, they must be available when you use the
update feature.
About this task
You can update your software in two ways:
- Online mode: This method requires an internet connection. Installation
Manager connects
to the IBM update repositories that are preconfigured when the product is installed, and downloads
and installs the update package.
- Offline mode: While connected to the internet, download the package from the IBM update
repository and extract the files to a temporary location. Then in offline mode, run Installation
Manager and
update the installation.
To find and install product package updates:
Procedure
- Start Installation
Manager.
- To install the update in offline mode, follow these steps, else go to step 3
- Download the update package from the IBM repository. For information about the repository
location, see the Download document for the release. The download document is available on the IBM
Support website.
- Extract the package to a temporary location on your computer.
- In Installation
Manager, click .
- Click Add Repository and add the path to the
repository.config or the disktag.inf file in the package
that you extracted.
- Click OK.
- From the Start page of the Installation Manager, click Update.
- If IBM Installation
Manager is not detected on your computer, continue with the installation of
the latest release. Follow the instructions in the wizard to complete the
installation.
- In the Update wizard, select the location of the package group
where the product you want to update is installed or select Update
All, and then click Next. Installation
Manager searches for updates in its repositories and the predefined update
sites for the product. A progress indicator shows the search is taking place.
- If updates for a package are found, then they are displayed in
the Updates list on the Update Packages page after
the corresponding package. Only recommended updates are displayed by default.
Click Show all to display all updates found for the
available packages.
- To learn more about an update, click the update and review its
description under Details.
- If additional information about the update is available, a More
info link is included at the end of the description text. Click
the link to display the information in a browser. Review this information
before installing the update.
- 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 and cleared together.
- Click Next.
- 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 select is displayed
- Click each item to display the corresponding license agreement
text.
- If you agree to the terms of all the license agreements, click I
accept the terms of the license agreements.
- Click Next to continue.
- On the Summary page, review your choices before installing the
updates.
- If you want to change the choices you made on previous pages,
click Back, and make your changes.
- When you are satisfied, click Update to
download and install the updates. A progress indicator shows the percentage
of the installation completed.
- Optional: When the update process is completed, a message
that confirms 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. Close the Installation Log window to continue.
- Click Finish to close the wizard.
- Optional: Only the features that you already have installed
are updated using the Update wizard. If the update
contains new features that you want to install, run the Modify wizard,
and select the new features to install from the feature selection panel.