Generating response files on Windows workstations

If you want to install the product silently on multiple Windows workstations, you must first generate a response file.

Before you begin

Procedure

To generate a response file:

  1. Ensure that IBM® Installation Manager automatically checks for updates to itself.
    1. Start IBM Installation Manager.
    2. Select File > Preferences.
    3. In the Preferences window, select Updates.
    4. On the Updates page, select the option Search for Installation Manager updates. Then, click OK.
    5. Close IBM Installation Manager.
  2. Record the response file by following the steps in the topic "Recording a response file with Installation Manager".
    After you finish step 2 in that topic and Installation Manager starts, select File > Preferences in the menu bar. On the Repositories page of the Preferences window, follow one of these steps to add the repository or repositories where the installation media is located.
    • If you want to install both the IBM Data Studio client and the license activation kit, add the location of the diskTag.inf files for both the IBM Data Studio client, Version 3.2 and the IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner License Activation Kit, Version 3.2.
    • If you want to install only the IBM Data Studio client, add the location of the diskTag.inf file for the IBM Data Studio client, Version 3.2.
    • If you want to install only the license activation kit because the IBM Data Studio client, Version 3.2 is already installed on target machines, add the location of the diskTag.inf file for the IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner License Activation Kit, Version 3.2.
    The path to the diskTag.inf file for IBM Data Studio client is: 
    root_path_of_installation_media/disk1/diskTag.inf
    The path to the diskTag.inf file for the license activation kit is:
    root_path_of_installation_media/oqwt/diskTag.inf
    On the Install Packages page, specify an existing package group or a new package group depending on whether you are upgrading an existing product.
    • If the IBM Data Studio client, Version 3.1.1 is installed, upgrade it to the IBM Data Studio client, Version 3.2 by selecting the package group in which the Version 3.1.1 client is installed. If you plan to install the IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner License Activation Kit, Version 3.2, install it into the same package group.
    • If the IBM Data Studio client, Version 3.1 installed, install the IBM Data Studio client, Version 3.2 into a new package group. If you plan to install the IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner License Activation Kit, Version 3.2, install it into the same package group in which you are installing the Version 3.2 client.
    • If the InfoSphere Optim Query Tuner client, Version 3.1 is installed and you want to upgrade to IBM Data Studio client, Version 3.2, select the package group in which the InfoSphere Optim Query Tuner client, Version 3.1 is installed. The Installation Manager wizard will uninstall that product before installing IBM Data Studio client, Version 3.2. If you plan to install the IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner License Activation Kit, Version 3.2, install it into the same package group.
    • If you do not have the InfoSphere Optim Query Tuner client, Version 3.1 or IBM Data Studio client, Version 3.1 or 3.1.1 installed, create a new package group.
  3. Finish the remaining steps in the wizard. When the wizard finishes, the response file is generated at the location that you specified when you ran the command to generate the response file.
  4. If IBM Installation Manager is not installed on the workstations where you plan to run the response file, modify the response file by adding information for installing IBM Installation Manager.
    1. Open the response file in a text editor.
    2. Open the repository.xml file for IBM Installation Manager in a text editor. The path to this file is:
      root_path_of_installation_media/disk1/InstallerImage_platform/
      .
    3. In the repository.xml file, copy the opening <offering> tag. That tag looks similar to this:  <offering id='com.ibm.cic.agent' version='1.6.0.20120831_1216'>
    4. In the response file, create a new line after the opening <install> tag.
    5. Paste the copied <offering> tag at the new line, so that the tag is the first entry after the <install> tag.
    6. Before the closing angle bracket in the <offering> tag, type a space and a forward slash.
    7. In the offering tag, replace the single quotation marks with double quotation marks.
    8. Save and close the response file.

What to do next

Transfer the response file to a Windows workstation where you want to install the product. After you transfer the response file, run it on the target Windows workstation.

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