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Coexistence considerations

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If you plan to install multiple IBM® Eclipse-based products on the same workstation, review the information in this section.

Offering coexistence considerations

Some products are designed to coexist and share function when they are installed in the same package group. A package group is a location where you can install one or more software products or packages to share a common user interface or workbench. When you install each package, you select whether you want to install the package to an existing package group, or whether you want to create a new one. IBM Installation Manager will block products that are not designed to share a package group or do not meet version tolerance and other requirements. If you want to install more than one product at a time, the products must be able to share a package group.

Any number of eligible products can be installed to a package group. When a product is installed, its function is shared with all of the other products in the package group. If you install a development product and a testing product into one package group, when you start either of the products, you have both the development and testing functionality available to you in your user interface. If you add a product with modeling tools, all of the products in the package group will have the development, testing, and modeling functionality available.

If you want IBM Integration Designer 26.0.0 to coexist with a Rational® software product (for example, Rational Application Developer for WebSphere® Software), the Rational software product must be at version 8.5.x or higher. When you have an earlier version of the Rational software product you must correct this incompatibility by updating the version to 8.5.x or higher, or choose a new package group. When you want to add a Rational software product to the same package group as IBM Integration Designer 26.0.0, you must install it directly at the required 8.5.x (or higher) level by searching for available updates during the Rational installation (using Check for Other Versions and Extensions), or by pointing to the 8.5.x update repository location along with the base Rational repository location.

Note: Each product installed into a unique location may be associated with only one package group. A product must be installed into multiple locations in order to be associated with multiple package groups.

Coexisting installations of IBM Integration Designer

You can install IBM Integration Designer 26.0.0 onto a system with an existing installation of IBM Integration Designer 26.0.0, but the two cannot be part of the same package group.

Similarly, you can install IBM Integration Designer 26.0.0 onto a system with an earlier installation of IBM Integration Designer, but the two cannot be part of the same package group.