Upgrading Rational Application Developer or WebSphere Application Server

Enterprise Deployment Utility can be customized to update Rational Application Developer or WebSphere Application Server.

You can create customizations by adding Apache Ant scripts and their properties under the custom directory:
  • WCDE_installdir/Enterprise Deployment/custom/build.xml
  • WCDE_installdir/Enterprise Deployment/custom/properties/custom.properties

Procedure

If Rational Application Developer features must be added, removed, or modified, you must record a new response file for Rational Application Developer using IBM Installation Manager:
  1. Start IBM Installation Manager to record the response file.
    Make sure all the directories exist before you start IBM Installation Manager. For example: 
    C:\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse>IBMIMc -record
C:\IBM\Installation Manager\responses\response.xml
 - skipInstall
C:\IBM\Installation Manager\responses\log.xml
  2. To add the Rational Application Developer repository, click File > Preferences.
  3. Click through the installation wizard as if you are doing an actual installation.
  4. Close IBM Installation Manager after completion. The response XML file is only created when IBM Installation Manager is closed.
  5. Follow the examples in the WCDE_installdir/Enterprise Deployment/build directory to update Rational Application Developer silently.
    For more information about how to record a response file in IBM Installation Manager, see Recording a response file with Installation Manager.