Upgrading your existing product offering | HCL Digital Experience

After your initial HCL Digital Experience installation, you can purchase a license for an upgraded product offering.

About this task

Cluster note: In a clustered environment, run these steps on all the nodes.
Response file note: You can record and run a response file to upgrade your existing product offering. Read Use response files to install for information. Use the following steps when you record your response file. Ensure that you exit from the IBM® Installation Manager program to finish your recording.
IBM i response file note: Run the sample response file to upgrade your existing product offering. Read Use response files to install for information. For IBM® i, edit the appropriate sample response file that is in the setup_root/responsefiles/iseries directory. You cannot record the response file from your IBM® i operating system. You can record a response file on another operating system. Use the following steps when you record your response file. Ensure that you exit from the IBM® Installation Manager program to finish your recording. You must edit the response file that you recorded to add your IBM® i specific parameters.

Procedure

  1. Stop all the application servers.
  2. Open the IBM® Installation Manager and complete the following steps to add the content repository:
    1. Go to File > Preferences > Repositories.
    2. Select Add Repositories.
    3. Select Browse and go to the offering-install-eimage/Setup directory.
    4. Select the repository.config file.
    5. Click OK.
    6. Ensure that all necessary repositories are checked.
    7. Ensure that the content repository is after the Server repository in the list.
    8. Click Test Connections to ensure that the IBM® Installation Manager can successfully access the directory where the repository is stored.
    9. Select Apply.
    10. Select OK.
  3. On the main IBM® Installation Manager panel, select Install to begin the installation process.
  4. On the Install Package: Select packages to install panel, check the box for the additional package that you purchased. Then, click Next.
  5. Accept the license agreement and then click Next.
  6. On the Location panel, select Use the existing package group. Select the HCL Portal V85 package group name and then click Next.
  7. On the Features panel, check the box for the additional feature that you purchased. Then, click Next.
  8. Confirm the Summary panel information and then click Install.

What to do next

New profiles are enabled with the upgraded offering. Existing profiles are only updated if they were created with the IBM® Installation Manager. If you created profiles with the Configuration Wizard, run the following configuration task from the wp_profile_root/ConfigEngine directory.
  • AIX® HP-UX Linux™ Solaris: ./ConfigEngine.sh enable-wcm -DWasPassword=password
  • IBM® i: ConfigEngine.sh enable-wcm -DWasPassword=password
  • Windows™: ConfigEngine.bat enable-wcm -DWasPassword=password
  • z/OS®: ./ConfigEngine.sh enable-wcm -DWasPassword=password

New profiles are enabled with the upgraded offering. Existing profiles are only updated if they were created with the IBM® Installation Manager.