Installing
You can see here the instructions for installing Rational® Programming Patterns. These instructions are also included in the installation guide that is available from the installation electronic images of the product and the IBM publications center.
- Introduction
The installation instructions guide you in installing, updating, and uninstalling Rational Programming Patterns v9.6.2. - Rational Programming Patterns installation requirements
This section presents the installation requirements for VisualAge® Pacbase, the Rational Programming Patterns Eclipse client, and the server. - Planning to install the Rational Programming Patterns Eclipse client and server
Read this section before attempting to install any of the product features. Many problems can be avoided by planning and understanding the key aspects of the installation process before actually starting the installation. - Installing the required products
Follow the instructions indicated in this section to install VisualAge Pacbase and Rational Programming Patterns client and server. - Installing Rational Programming Patterns
Follow the instructions provided in this section to install Rational Programming Patterns. - Post-installation tasks
The Pacbase facet of Rational Programming Patterns runs only with the default encoding of the workspace in the Software Delivery Platform. If the field Text file encoding, available from Window > Preferences > General > Workspace, contains another value than the default value Cp1252, you must change it. Any other value causes use problems. - Starting the Rational Programming Patterns Eclipse client
You can start the Rational Programming Patterns Eclipse client from the Windows desktop environment or the command-line interface. - Running Rational Programming Patterns command lines on AIX
Rational Programming Patterns cannot be installed on AIX®. However, a package is standardly supplied with the Rational Programming Patterns client part to run some commands on this operating system. - Testing the installation
Before you can work with the new products, you must ensure that the installation was successful. - Updating Rational Programming Patterns
IBM® periodically provides updates for Rational Programming Patterns. So the latest updates can be installed as soon as they are available. You can access these updates from the IBM update server or from a compressed file that you download from Fix Central. To update the Rational Programming Patterns server that is installed on z/OS®, you must apply the PTF that is available with the fix. - Uninstalling Rational Programming Patterns
The Rational Programming Patterns installation process does not automatically uninstall the previous versions of the product. - Specific licenses for the Rational Programming Patterns web client
The Rational Programming Patterns instances that are contained in a Rational Team Concert™ project area can be seen through the Rational Programming Patterns web client only if the user has the appropriate licenses. The RPP tab is included in the menu bar of the Rational Team Concert web client only if these licenses are active. - Appendix: IBM Packaging Utility
You can use the IBM Packaging Utility software to copy packages to a repository that can be placed on a web server available over HTTP or HTTPS. It is useful if you have different offerings or service updates you want to place in a single repository in addition to Rational Programming Patterns. You can use this repository to perform interactive or silent installations.
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