Installation overview

Complete the prerequisites and installation steps in the correct order.

The installation instructions assume that you install IBM® Safer Payments as a cluster of multiple IBM Safer Payments instances. If you want to install IBM Safer Payments as stand-alone service, omit the installation steps for the other instances.

You must be logged in with an administrator account on your workstation to run some of the installation steps.

Note: You do not need administrator privileges to run IBM Safer Payments.

Before you begin

  1. Review the system requirements. For more information, see System requirements.
  2. Complete the installation prerequisites. For more information, see Installation prerequisites.

Installing IBM Safer Payments

  1. If you have an existing installation, verify the version number that you are running. Log in as root on the console and enter the following command: 
    iris release
  2. Read the Release Notes to find out the current major releases and fix packs that are available. Decide what major release or fix pack you need to install. Contact IBM Support if you have questions.
  3. Download the installation image. For more information, see Downloading the installation image.
  4. Verify and extract the installation zip file. For more information, see Verifying and extracting the installation zip file.
  5. Prepare JRE (optional). For more information, see Preparing the Java Runtime Environment.
  6. Run the installer. Follow the process that is correct for your situation. For more information, see: