Re: Installing WAS 8.5 Express Supplements

This looks like it might be it:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.websphere.nd.iseries.doc%2Finfo%2Fiseriesnd%2Fae%2Ftins_is_webplugins_silent.html



On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Jack Kingsley<iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Jim, are these the plugins.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Dean, Robert<rdean@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>

>> It depends on your point of view. The PTF process just complicates
>> Installation Manager. If you manage it on its own, it's even simpler in
>> some regards than licpgm/PTF. Installing the product and all available
>> fixes can be done in one pass, and applying applicable fixes is similarly
>> straightforward.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:36 AM
>> To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
>> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Installing WAS 8.5 Express Supplements
>>
>> Aaahhh I wish for the simplicity of an LPP and options, but alas, no they
>> are not features in the sense that they show up on the display licensed
>> program list. Base WAS does yes, but not the supplemental products.
>>
>> I am so glad Zend decided to use the Licensed Program and PTF route to
>> load and update Zend Server. It's so much easier than WAS.
>>
>> Yes WAS uses a PTF, but then you have to update the installation manager,
>> then run the script to apply all the changes to the server
>> while it's down. That can take "some minutes" as Larry likes to say.
>> That process is nearly as awful as the original installation. If you get
>> an error which happens quite often, you have to be a Java Guru to figure
>> out what went wrong and correct it. Usually it's a misspelling of one of
>> the options, or a missed dash or something like that, but it's a bit of a
>> task to find it.
>>
>> Jim Oberholtzer
>> Chief Technical Architect
>> Agile Technology Architects
>>
>>
>> On 1/30/2013 9:59 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:

>> > Do you have more info than just supplemental products?? Would these
>> > be features of 5733W80 5733W85 then??
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Jim Oberholtzer<
>> > midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >

>> >> > Jack,
>> >> >
>> >> > Yes that is the instruction sheet for the original install. I'll
>> >> > argue, now from experience, that they leave quite a bit out but it
>> >> > works for the base installation. What I'm after is the
>> >> > instructions on how to do the supplemental products that are on the

>> second DVD.

>> >> >
>> >> > Jim Oberholtzer
>> >> > Chief Technical Architect
>> >> > Agile Technology Architects
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On 1/30/2013 9:42 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:

>> >>> > > Maybe this is it:
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > >

>> >> >
>> >> > http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/SLKBase.nsf/1ac66549a21402188625680b00
>> >> > 02037e/02eae6f58c4cc0e886257a3a0042647c?OpenDocument

>> >>> > >
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Jack
>> >>> > Kingsley<iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx
>> >>> > >wrote:
>> >>> > >

>> >>>>> > >> > Jim, are you talking WAS 8.5 Express, I did something

>> like this a

>> >> > while

>> >>>>> > >> > back, I know you have to use installation manager and

>> QSH/PASE I

>> >> > believe.

>> >>>>> > >> >
>> >>>>> > >> >
>> >>>>> > >> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Jim Oberholtzer<
>> >>>>> > >> > midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>>>> > >> >

>> >>>>>>> > >>> >> Cross posted on Midrange-L and Web400.
>> >>>>>>> > >>> >>
>> >>>>>>> > >>> >> Does anyone have the installation instructions for

>> loading the WAS

>> >> > 8.5

>> >>>>>>> > >>> >> Express Supplements? Since IBM does not seem to

>> have any real

>> >>>>>>> > >>> >> installation documentation that I can find, and I'm

>> not the least

>> >> > bit

>> >>>>>>> > >>> >> clairvoyant, I'd appreciate some guidance.
>> >>>>>>> > >>> >>
>> >>>>>>> > >>> >> --
>> >>>>>>> > >>> >> Jim Oberholtzer
>> >>>>>>> > >>> >> Chief Technical Architect
>> >>>>>>> > >>> >> Agile Technology Architects
>> >>>>>>> > >>> >>
>> >>>>>>> > >>> >> --

>> >> > --