Installing Liberty on IBM i operating systems using response files

You can install all WebSphere® Application Server Liberty offerings on IBM® i operating systems using Installation Manager response files.

Before you begin

Important:

Java™ SE 8 is the recommended Java SDK because it provides the latest features and security updates. An alternative to Java SE 8 is any supported Java SDK version.

Prepare for the installation before using this procedure. See Preparing the operating system for installation on IBM i for more information.

If you want to install Liberty assets from local directory-based repositories or an instance of the Liberty Asset Repository Service, configure the repositories. For more information about the Liberty asset repositories, see Installing assets using Installation Manager.

Important: Before installing Liberty, you must read the license agreement that you can find with the product files. Signify your acceptance of the license agreement by specifying -acceptLicense in the command as described in this topic.

If IBM Installation Manager Version 1.8.5 or later is not already installed, install it on the system where you want to install the product:

Download IBM Installation Manager.
Through version 19.0.0.8, the minimum acceptable version of IBM Installation Manager is 1.8.5.

As of version 19.0.0.9, the minimum acceptable version of IBM Installation Manager is 1.9.0.
There are three basic options for accessing Installation Manager installation files.
- Download the most current version of Installation Manager from the IBM Installation Manager download website.
- Install Installation Manager from product repositories on the media.
- Download the files from the Passport Advantage® site, and use local installation
  Licensed customers with a Passport Advantage ID and password can download the necessary product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.
Choose three separate locations for Installation Manager's binaries, runtime data (agent data), and shared data locations.
Install Installation Manager using the Installation Manager command line.
1. Sign on to the IBM i system with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
2. On a CL command line, run the STRQSH command to start the Qshell command shell.
3. Make sure that the umask is set to 022.
  To verify the umask setting, issue the following command:
```
umask
```
  To set the umask setting to 022, issue the following command:
```
umask 022
```
4. Change to the location containing the Installation Manager installation files, and run the following command:
```
installc -acceptLicense -log log_file_path_and_name
```
  Notes:
  - For more information on installing Installation Manager, see the IBM Installation Manager product documentation.
  - Use only the installc command to install Installation Manager.

Procedure

Optional: If the repository requires a user name and password, create credential-storage and master-password files to access this repository.
1. Optional: Create the main password file.
  
  The main password file is a text file that contains a passphrase such as This text is the main password. This file is used to secure your authentication credentials.
  
  If you create a main password file and use it when you create credentials, you must always specify the main password file.
  
  Tip: To secure this file, set permissions to restrict access to this file as appropriate for your operating system.
2. Create a credential storage file by running the imutilsc saveCredential command.
```
imutilsc.exe saveCredential 
  -secureStorageFile storage_file
  -userName user_ID -userPassword user_password
  -url repository_URL_or_path 
```
```
./imutilsc saveCredential 
  -secureStorageFile storage_file
  -userName user_ID -userPassword user_password
  -url repository_URL_or_path 
```
  Tip: If the imutilsc command is unable to find the URL that is specified when you create the credential storage file, append /repository.config at the end of the repository URL location.
Sign on to the IBM i system with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
On a CL command line, run the STRQSH command to start the Qshell command shell.
Make sure that the umask is set to 022.
To verify the umask setting, issue the following command:
```
umask
```
To set the umask setting to 022, issue the following command:
```
umask 022
```
Use a response file to install the product.
Change to the eclipse/tools subdirectory in the directory where you installed Installation Manager, and install the product. For example:
```
./imcl -acceptLicense 
  input $HOME/WASFiles/temp/install_response_file.xml 
  -log $HOME/WASFiles/temp/install_log.xml 
  -secureStorageFile $HOME/WASFiles/temp/credential.store -masterPasswordFile $HOME/WASFiles/password_file.txt
```
Notes:
- The relevant terms and conditions, notices, and other information are provided in the license-agreement files in the lafiles or product_name/lafiles subdirectory of the installation image or repository for this offering.
- /QIBM/ProdData/InstallationManager is the default installation location for Installation Manager files on IBM i systems.
- The program might write important post-installation instructions to standard output.
Read the IBM Installation Manager product documentation for more information.

Example

The following is an example of a response file for installing the product with no optional features into the /QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/Liberty/LibertyCore directory using a web-based repository located at http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.CORE.ND.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-input>
<server>
  <repository location='http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.CORE.ND'/>
</server>
<profile id='WebSphere Liberty' installLocation='/QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/Liberty/LibertyCore'>
  <data key='was.install.os400.profile.location' value='/QIBM/UserData/WebSphere/Liberty/LibertyCore'/>
  <data key='user.import.profile' value='false'/>
</profile>
<install modify='false'>
  <offering profile='WebSphere Liberty' 
    features='' id='com.ibm.websphere.liberty.CORE.ND'/>
</install>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.eclipseCache' 
  value='/QIBM/UserData/InstallationManager/IMShared'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.connectTimeout' value='30'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.readTimeout' value='30'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.downloadAutoRetryCount' value='0'/>
<preference name='offering.service.repositories.areUsed' value='true'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.ssl.nonsecureMode' value='false'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.http.disablePreemptiveAuthentication' value='false'/>
<preference name='http.ntlm.auth.kind' value='NTLM'/>
<preference name='http.ntlm.auth.enableIntegrated.win32' value='true'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.preserveDownloadedArtifacts' value='true'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.keepFetchedFiles' value='false'/>
<preference name='PassportAdvantageIsEnabled' value='false'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates' value='false'/>
</agent-input>

Tips:

New: By default, all Liberty features that apply to your product edition are installed when you install Liberty.
Rather than installing all features, you can install a custom set of Liberty addons and features by specifying them on the user.addon and user.feature properties, as shown in the following example. Note the feature short names or symbolic names must be separated by double commas.
The following example installs the Portlet Container feature using the symbolic name, the Portlet Serving feature using the short name, and the Extended Programming Models addon.
```
<data key='user.feature' value='com.ibm.websphere.appserver.portlet-2.0,,portletserving-2.0'/>
<data key='user.addon' value='extendedPackage-1.0'/>
<data key='user.accept.license' value='true'/>
```
You can install assets from instances of the Liberty Asset Repository Service or local directory-based repositories with or without internet access. For more information, see Installing assets using Installation Manager. Add the repository URL, directory, or archive path on repository elements. If Installation Manager does not recognize the repository, point directly to the repository.config file. When you install assets, the repositories are accessed in the order that you specify them.
```
<server>
<repository location="http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.liberty" />
<repository location="https://your_onprem_asset_repo_url" />
<repository location="/QIBM/LocalAssetRepo" />
<repository location="/QIBM/LocalAssetRepo2.zip" />
</server>
```
To enable access to the Liberty Repository, on a data element, set the user.useLibertyRepository parameter to true. The Liberty Repository is the last of the repositories that are accessed during installation.
```
<data key='user.useLibertyRepository' value='true'/>
```
Important: If you do not want to install Liberty addons or features, specify empty values for the user.addonuser.feature properties:
```
<data key='user.feature' value=''/>
<data key='user.addon' value=''/>
```
For more information, see the following topics:
Make sure that the repository location points to the web-based or local product repository. For example:
```
<repository location='https://downloads.mycorp.com:8080/WAS_Liberty_repository'/>
```
The following line from the example specifies the default value of the profile location for IBM i:
```
<data key='was.install.os400.profile.location' value='/QIBM/UserData/WebSphere/Liberty/LibertyCore'/>
```
To override this default location, specify a different location
The following line from the example specifies the default value of the shared resources directory for IBM i:
```
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.eclipseCache' value='/QIBM/UserData/InstallationManager/IMShared'/>
```
To override this default location, specify a different location
Note: There is only one shared resources directory for Installation Manager. If there has been an installation on the system in the past, it will use that shared resources directory and not the one specified in the response file.
To disable remote searches for updates in the response file, set the following preferences to false:
- offering.service.repositories.areUsed
  Used for searching remote repositories for updates to installed offerings
- com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates
  Used for searching for updates to Installation Manager
For example:
```
<preference value='false' name='offering.service.repositories.areUsed'/>
<preference value='false' name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates'/>
```
You can find more details on silent preference keys in the IBM Installation Manager product documentation.
To install more than one instance of an offering, you must make the profile ID of each additional instance unique. For example:
```
<offering profile='WebSphere Liberty - Another User's WAS Liberty CORE' 
    features='' id='com.ibm.websphere.liberty.CORE.ND'/>
```
This must be changed in both places that specify the profile ID in the response file.
To add the optional embeddable EJB container and JPA client feature (embeddablecontainer), add the feature in the offering. For example:
```
<offering id='com.ibm.websphere.liberty.CORE.ND' 
  profile='WebSphere Liberty'
  features='embeddablecontainer' installFixes='none'/>
```

Here are some examples of changes that you could make to manipulate this response file to perform alternative actions.

To alter the location of the installation, simply change the installation location. For example:

Replace

<profile id='WebSphere Liberty' installLocation='/QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/Liberty/LibertyCore'>

with

<profile id='WebSphere Liberty' installLocation='/home/user/IBM/WebSphere/Liberty/Server'>

To install from a local repository instead of the live remote repository, replace the repository location. For example:

Replace

<repository location='http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.CORE.ND'/>

with

<repository location='/home/user/repositories/WAS/local-repositories'/>