Installing silently using the command line

You can install IBM® Business Automation Workflow silently using the command line. With this method, you need to run only one command to perform the installation.

Before you begin

If you do not have the prerequisite base products that are necessary for IBM Business Automation Workflow installation, you must install the base products as part of the silent installation. The required base products are:

• IBM Installation Manager
• WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment, including the ejbdeploy and thinclient features.

When you install the product, also install any available cumulative fixes or fix packs by adding the repository where you downloaded the fix. Additionally, install security fixes as they become available.

Important: For versions before V18.0.0.2, make sure that you include the required fix PI73197: Enable Java 8 Support for EJBDeploy on WebSphere Application Server. The fix is included with WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.14 and later.

If you are installing from downloaded images from Passport Advantage, ensure that you downloaded all three required images for Windows. If you are installing from the DVD images, obtain the compressed files from the DVDs. In both cases, extract all of the files from the compressed files to the same location on your hard disk.

Restriction: Use 7zip to extract the files. Disk 2 is too big for the built-in Windows extraction tool.

1. Run the following command to generate encrypted passwords using Installation Manager to securely connect to DB2 and the administrative console.
   Important: On Windows, start your command prompt by right-clicking and selecting Run as administrator.

   extract_directory/IM64/tools/imutilsc -silent -nosplash encryptString password_to_encrypt

   Note: If you already have 32-bit Installation Manager installed, you can run the command from the extract_directory\IM\tools directory.
2. Read and accept the license terms before installing. Adding -acceptLicense to the command line means that you accept all licenses.
3. Run the following command:
   Important: On Windows, start your command prompt by right-clicking and selecting Run as administrator.

   extract_directory/IM64/tools/imcl install list_of_package_IDs -acceptLicense -installationDirectory location -repositories repository -properties key=value,key=value -showVerboseProgress -log logName.log
   

   where:

   • list_of_package_IDs is a list of the IDs for the products and features that you want to install. You must include the required features. The syntax is packageID,feature,feature, with multiple products separated by spaces.

     Table 1. Package IDs

     Product	Package ID	Feature and Description
     IBM Business Automation Workflow Enterprise	com.ibm.bpm.ADV.v85	WorkflowEnterprise.NonProduction - Test, staging, or development use WorkflowEnterprise.Production - Production use Important: Do not mix production and non-production servers in the same cell.
     IBM Business Automation Workflow Express	com.ibm.bpm.EXP.v85	WorkflowExpress.NonProduction - Test, staging, or development use WorkflowExpress.Production - Production use Important: Do not mix production and non-production servers in the same cell.
     WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment	com.ibm.websphere.ND.v85	core.feature: Required. WebSphere Application Server core content. ejbdeploy: Required. Pre-Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 modules. thinclient: Required. Stand-alone thin clients and resource adapters. embeddablecontainer: Embeddable EJB container. samples: Sample applications feature. com.ibm.sdk.6_64bit: 64-bit SDK.
     Installation Manager	com.ibm.cic.agent	agent_core: Installation Manager core content. agent_jre: Installation Manager Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
     Db2® AWSE for Windows 64-bit	com.ibm.ws.DB2EXP.winia64	DB2 must match the operating system

   • location is the path to the directory where you want to install the products. To install into an existing supported instance of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, specify its directory.
     Tip: Keep the installation path as short as possible. Otherwise, you might run into problems later when the paths of other components, when added to this path, exceed the 255-character path limit.
   • repository is the path to the repository where you have extracted the files:

     extract_directory/repository/repos_64bit

     For more than one repository, separate the repository locations with commas.

   • key=value is a list of the keys and values you want to pass to the installation, separated by commas. Do not put spaces between the commas. Create encrypted passwords using the IBM Installation Manager.
     Important: You must include the user.wasjava=java8 property.
     If you are installing Db2 AWSE, you can include the following properties:

     Table 2. Keys

     Key	Description
     user.db2.admin.username	User name with authority to access the DB2 database
     user.db2.admin.password	Encrypted password for the user name with authority to access the DB2 database. Choose a password that complies with the password policy of your system.
     user.db2.port	Port for the DB2 database. The default value is 50000.

   • logName is the name of the log file to record messages and results.
   Running this command installs the product with the default features. To install any specific features or make other changes, see the reference link for the command-line arguments for imcl.

imcl install com.ibm.bpm.ADV.v85,WorkflowEnterprise.NonProduction com.ibm.websphere.ND.v85,core.feature,ejbdeploy,thinclient,embeddablecontainer,samples,com.ibm.sdk.6_64bit com.ibm.ws.DB2EXP.winia64 -acceptLicense -installationDirectory C:/IBM/BPM -repositories D:/temp/BPM/repository/repos_64bit -properties user.wasjava=java8,user.db2.admin.username=bpmadmin,user.db2.admin.password="Vvrs88V/a9BUdxwodz0nUg==" -showVerboseProgress -log silentinstall.log

imcl install com.ibm.bpm.ADV.v85,WorkflowEnterprise.NonProduction com.ibm.websphere.ND.v85,core.feature,ejbdeploy,thinclient,embeddablecontainer,samples,com.ibm.sdk.6_64bit com.ibm.ws.DB2EXP.winia64 -acceptLicense -installationDirectory C:/IBM/BPM -repositories D:/temp/BPM/repository/repos_64bit,/usr/tmp/BPMCF -properties user.wasjava=java8,user.db2.admin.username=bpmadmin,user.db2.admin.password="Vvrs88V/a9BUdxwodz0nUg==" -showVerboseProgress -log silentinstall.log

imcl install com.ibm.bpm.ADV.v85,WorkflowEnterprise.NonProduction -acceptLicense -installationDirectory /opt/IBM/BPM -repositories /usr/tmp/BPM/repository/repos_64bit -showVerboseProgress -log silentinstall.log