Create a custom guide for installing and upgrading IBM Rational Focal Point

Follow the instructions in this guide to install or upgrade IBM® Rational® Focal Point™

Select the options that best describe your installation environment

Select your current version of Rational Focal Point:
Select your application server:
Select your database server:

To install or upgrade Rational Focal Point:

Create a backup of the database and files.

Before you begin:

  • You need information about creating the backup, which is in the documentation of your current version of Rational Focal Point and your database.
  • You need Rational Focal Point version 6.4.0, which you can obtain from IBM Rational Support.
  • On Linux systems, the Apache Tomcat application server is uninstalled when you uninstall a release of Rational Focal Point 5.4. Before you install version 6.4.0, you must install the application server.
  • You need the product documentation of Rational Focal Point 6.4.0, which contains more information about installing and uninstalling Rational Focal Point.

Create a backup of the database, report images, and custom business rules, and then uninstall Rational Focal Point.

Install Rational Focal Point version 6.4.0, update the database, and then upgrade to the latest version. For more information, see Upgrading from Rational Focal Point version 5.4 releases.

Create a backup of the database and the custom business rules.

Before you begin:

  • You need information about creating the backup, which is in the documentation for your current version of Rational Focal Point and the database.

Create a backup of the database and custom business rules, and then uninstall Rational Focal Point. For more information, see Ugrading from earlier versions of Rational Focal Point.

Create a backup of the database and the custom business rules.

For more information, see Upgrading from a release of version 6.4.1.

Create a backup of the database and the custom business rules.

For more information, see Upgrading from a release of version 6.5 to the new release..

Verify that the supported versions of the operating system, database, application server, browser, and JREs are installed.

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Rational Focal Point and your instance of one of the software requirements is no longer supported by Rational Focal Point, you must upgrade to a version that is compatible with Rational Focal Point. For information about upgrading the software, see the documentation for that product.

Restriction:IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition is not supported by releases of Rational Focal Point version 6.5. You must use Apache Tomcat application server or WebSphere Application Server.

For more information, see System requirements.

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Obtain and extract the Rational Focal Point installation media.

Obtain the installation media from IBM Software Support or download the package from IBM Passport Advantage or FixCentral.

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Install Rational Common License Key Server and the license keys.

Before you begin:

Verify that the version of the license server is supported for the release, and install the license server. For information, see License requirements

If you have the compatible version of the license server and the licenses are already installed, ignore this task.

Install the Rational Focal Point licenses. For more information, see Install the Rational Focal Point licenses.

Configure the PostgreSQL database.

If your database version is not supported, upgrade to a version that is compatible with Rational Focal Point. For information about upgrading the software, see the documentation for that product. If the database is configured to work with Rational Focal Point, ignore this task.

For more information, see Configuring a PostgreSQL database.

Configure the IBM DB2 database.

If your database version is not supported, upgrade to a version that is compatible with Rational Focal Point. For information about upgrading the software, see the documentation for that product. If the database is configured to work with Rational Focal Point, ignore this task.

For more information, see Configuring a DB2 database.

Configure the Oracle database.

If your database version is not supported, upgrade to a version that is compatible with Rational Focal Point. For information about upgrading the software, see the documentation for that product. If the database is configured to work with Rational Focal Point, ignore this task.

For more information, see Configuring an Oracle database.

Install Rational Focal Point.

For more information, see Install Rational Focal Point.

Upgrade Rational Focal Point.

For more information, see Upgrade Rational Focal Point.

Start Apache Tomcat server.

For more information, see Start the Apache Tomcat server .

Configure and deploy the Rational Focal Point components on Websphere Application Server.

To set up Websphere Application Server, see Setting up Websphere Application Server .

To deploy the Rational Focal Point application component on Websphere Application Server, see Deploying the Rational Focal Point application .

To deploy the Financial feature component on Websphere Application Server, see Deploying the financial feature component .

To deploy the Jazz Web UI feature component on Websphere Application Server, see Deploying the Jazz Web UI feature component .

To deploy the help system on Websphere Application Server, see Deploying the help system .

To start the application on the Websphere Application Server, see Starting the applications.

Start Rational Focal Point.

After you start Rational Focal Point, change the administrator password. For more information, see Starting Rational Focal Point for the first time.

Migrate data from earlier versions of Rational Focal Point.

To use your custom business rules, you must obtain the new compiled version from support and import it.

For more information, see Migrating data from earlier versions of Rational Focal Point.

Configure and maintain Rational Focal Point.

To maintain the product, you must be an application or workspace administrator, as defined by the local usage policies.

For more information, see Maintaining Rational Focal Point.