Specifying an alternative temporary directory for installation

You can change the temporary directory where Installation Manager places files during installation.

Typically during installation, Installation Manager uses the default system /tmp directory to extract the files required for installation. If the default temporary directory is not accessible, you can specify an alternative temporary working directory to perform installation.

Note: If you do not intend to install Jazz™ for Service Management to the default installation directory or use the default temporary directory, you must modify the Prerequisite Scanner configuration files to check whether these non-default directories have the required available disk space. See Editing default configuration files for non-default installation locations.

To install Jazz for Service Management by using an alternative temporary directory, set the IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS environment variable.

On Windows systems:

C:\set IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS=-Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\jazzsmtemp

C:\echo %IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS% 
-Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\jazzsmtemp

After setting the temporary directory, browse to the JazzSM_Image_Home/ directory, and run launchpad or launchpad64 for 64-bit Windows computers.

On Linux systems:

[~]$ IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS=-Djava.io.tmpdir=/home/jazzsmtemp

[~]$ export IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS

Ensure that the following directories have the required permissions:

/home/jazzsmtemp rwxr-xr-x

/tmp rwxr-xr-x

The /tmp directory is used by DB2® as temporary location to execute database queries.

After setting the temporary directory, open the JazzSM_Image_Home/ directory and run ./launchpad.sh.

The Installation Manager uses the jazzsmtemp directory for installation.