Getting a copy of the IBM SDK (Linux)

Before you install OpenPages®, install IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition and set up the system environment variables for Java on each application server and the search server. You can also use the steps to install the IBM SDK on the installation server.

1. Locate the IBM SDK on the IBM OpenPages with Watson™ installation media.

   The path is /OP_<version>_Main/IBM_Java/Linux64/java_8.0_64.

2. Copy the IBM SDK to the local hard disk of the server.

   You can copy the IBM SDK to any directory on the server.

   For example, copy the IBM SDK to /opt/IBM/.
3. Grant read, write, and execute permissions on Java to the OpenPages installation user (opuser).
   Run the following command:

   chmod -R +x /opt/IBM/java_8.0_64

4. Set the system environment variables for Java.
   1. Based on the shell that you are using and the account under which the server will run, edit the .profile or .bashrc file.
   2. Ensure that JAVA_HOME is set to /opt/IBM/java_8.0_64.
   3. Ensure that PATH includes $JAVA_HOME/bin as the first item.
   Note: Start a new shell window to see the changes to the environment variables.
5. Verify the version of Java that is on the server.
   Run the java -version command. The result should be similar to the following sample:

   java version "1.8.0_311"
   Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 8.0.7.0 - pxa6480sr7-20211025_01(SR7))
   IBM J9 VM (build 2.9, JRE 1.8.0 Linux amd64-64-Bit Compressed References 
   20211022_15212 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
   OpenJ9   - 6abb372
   OMR      - b898db9
   IBM      - 2f2c48b)
   JCL - 20210930_01 based on Oracle jdk8u311-b11