Installation repositories

IBM Installation Manager retrieves DevOps product files from repository locations.

Installation Manager uses repositories to locate the installation files for DevOps products. A repository is a location that stores data for installing, modifying, rolling back, updating, or uninstalling DevOps products. Repositories are specified in the Installation Manager preferences.

The extracted installation files for a DevOps product contain the repository for that product. The DevOps product installation files also include Installation Manager. You do not need to download Installation Manager separately.

In situations where Installation Manager is already installed, you must specify the repository location for the DevOps product. You specify a repository location by selecting either diskTag.inf or repository.config. In some cases, the DevOps product installation files contains both a diskTag.inf and a repository.config. Use the diskTag.inf when selecting a repository location. For more information about specifying a repository, see Setting repository preferences.

If a silent install is used to install the DevOps product, the response file defines the repository location. For information about silent installs, see Installing silently

By default, Installation Manager uses service repositories for each DevOps software product. Service repositories are located on IBM®.com. See Setting repository preferences for information about enabling or disabling service repositories in Installation Manager.