Installing the Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries

The Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries is a command-line tool which requires Java 7 or later to run. If you have performance issues when running the binary scanner, Java 11 and later delivers significant improvements when running the binary scanner.

Viewing hardware and software requirements

When you plan an installation, review the list of supported operating systems, detailed system requirements, and hardware requirements. To get this information, you can view a software product compatibility report.

  1. Go to the Software Product Compatibility Reports page.
  2. Click Create a report for the type of report you want to create.
  3. For the Full or partial product name field, enter WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit and click the Search product icon.
  4. In the search results, select a version in the Version list and click Submit.

Learn the steps to quickly and easily generate custom IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports.

Installing

You can install the tool from a repository archive file that you download, as described in the following steps:

  1. Download the latest version of Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries from the WebSphere Migration Knowledge Collection Downloads.
  2. Run the following command and follow the prompts to install the Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries. 
    
java -jar binaryAppScannerInstaller.jar

    After you accept the license agreement and specify the target directory for the installation, the tool is installed in the <target directory>/wamt directory.

For performance reasons, the binary scanner should be used in quality assurance or development environments rather than production environments.