Preparing to install

Before you install the product, complete these steps:

1. Confirm that your system meets the IBM Integration Designer hardware and software requirements that are described in Detailed system requirements for a specific product .
2. Read the section Planning to install and give particular attention to the topic Coexistence considerations.
3. Download the most recent base image of Integration Designer and the service release (delta .zip file) for the version you want from the IBM Password Advantage website. The files that you download depend on which version you are installing. Download the base release and add the service release and fixable files. Details are in the download documentation and Fix Central.
4. Extract all the files onto your local file system or a shared drive. Extract all files to the same location, and overwrite directories if prompted.
   IBM Installation Manager can obtain updates from online repositories. If you are running in an isolated environment, you might need to prepare by downloading updates from the appropriate IBM repository and put them into a directory on your local system.

   1. Create the following file: %HOMEPATH%bpm_updates.properties
   2. In the bpm_updates.properties file, add text to point to the location of the fix pack in your local system, for example:

      fixpack.BPM_CF=local_repository_path
      iid.20002.delta.repository.zip
      workflow.20002.delta.repository.zip

   These details are from step 2b in Installing IBM Business Automation Workflow Version 21.0.3 .