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Additional information about installing Installation Manager can be found at the following
website:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24031300
4.3 Working with Installation Manager
When you work with Installation Manager, you can influence how it operates by setting certain
preferences. You also need one or more repositories. In this section, we explain how to work
with Installation Manager.
4.3.1 Installation Manager preferences
You can set the Installation Manager preferences using one of the following methods:
When using command line, specify the -preferences parameter followed by the parameter
name and its value, as shown in Example 4-2 on page 106.
When using a response file, specify the preference in XML format, as shown in
Example 4-3.
Example 4-3 Setting a preference in a response file
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.eclipseCache'
value='/InstallationManager/sharedResources'/>
4.3.2 Repository overview
Installation Manager uses a repository to identify the packages or updates to install. A
repository is a location that stores data for installing, modifying, rolling back, updating, or
uninstalling packages. Each installed package has an embedded location for its default
update repository. You can add, edit, or remove repositories as needed.
Based on the configured repositories, Installation Manager determines the specific packages
to install, including products, fix packs, interim fixes, and so on. It checks prerequisites and
interdependencies and installs the selected packages.
An Installation Manager repository contains one or more product offerings, each with both
metadata and the actual offering payload. The offering metadata describes the following
aspects of the offering:
Name, version, supported platforms, and so on
Required and optional features
Relationships and dependencies between offerings and features of offerings
Normally, an Installation Manager repository contains the full content that is required to install
the product on various platforms, operating systems, and so on.
Verification: To verify that Installation Manager was installed, run the following command:
/InstallationManager/bin/eclipse/tools/imcl -version
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