Installing Installation Manager on IBM i

The IBM i system must have Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) version 8.0 installed.

The install, userinst, groupinst, and groupinstc commands are not included with the installation files for IBM i as the GUI mode is not supported. You cannot install in group mode on IBM i. For more information about installation modes and default directory locations, see Installing as an administrator, nonadministrator, or group. Use the Qshell command environment to install Installation Manager on IBM i using the command line.

Administrators must have the *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities in their profile. Administrators that have these special authorities can read or write to files in the file system. As an administrator, you can run installc in the Qshell command environment even if you do not have the file execute permission set.

For nonadministrators, after you extract the installation files from the compressed file, check that the binary launcher programs have the file execute permission set. IBM i does not include a zip or unzip utility to extract the installation files. Use the JAR command within Qshell to extract the files. If a nonadministrator uses a Java JAR utility to extract the files from the compressed file, the files do not have the file execute permissions set.

For more information about the IBM i operating system, see the IBM i documentation.