Extracting the compressed file for installation on distributed platforms

On distributed platforms, you install the IMS TM resource adapter by extracting the installation files from a compressed file to the correct location for later deployment to the application server.

Procedure

Download, and then extract the compressed file contents to a target installation directory.

One of the many options, some platform-dependent, for extracting the contents of the installation archive is as follows:

tar -xvf icoxxxx.tar install_path

The tar program is available as part of the operating system in UNIX and Linux® variants. Versions of the tar program are also available from a variety of sources as free software program downloads. Note that some extraction tools are able to handle .tar files as well as .zip files.

Results

Successful completion of the extraction places the contents of the compressed file in the directories install_path/IBM/IMS/ICOxxx/Vxxxx, where install_path is the target installation path of your choice and Vxxxx is the version number of the IMS TM resource adapter installation compressed file that you downloaded. For example, c:\Program Files\IBM\IMS\ICOxxx\Vxxxx on Windows or /opt/IBM/IMS/ICOxxx/Vxxxx for AIX®.

What to do next

Proceed to verify the extracted directory structure and file contents.