Uninstalling the product from distributed operating systems using response files
You can uninstall this product using Installation Manager response files.
Before you begin
Optional: Perform or record the installation of Installation Manager
and installation of the product to a temporary installation registry on one of your systems so that
you can use this temporary registry to record the uninstallation without using the standard registry
where Installation Manager is installed.
About this task
Using Installation Manager, you can work with response files to uninstall the product in a variety of ways. You can record a response file using the GUI as described in the following procedure, or you can generate a new response file by hand or by taking an example and modifying it.
Procedure
Example
The following is an example of a response file for uninstalling the product.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-input clean='true' temporary='true'>
<uninstall modify='false'>
<offering id='com.ibm.websphere.BASE.v85'
profile='IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5'/>
</uninstall>
<profile id='IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5'
installLocation='C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer'>
<data key='eclipseLocation' value='C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer'/>
<data key='user.import.profile' value='false'/>
<data key='cic.selector.nl' value='cs,de,en,es,fr,hu,it,ja,ko,pl,pt_BR,ro,ru,zh,zh_HK,zh_TW'/>
</profile>
</agent-input>
For
the Express
product:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-input clean='true' temporary='true'>
<uninstall modify='false'>
<offering id='com.ibm.websphere.EXPRESS.v85'
profile='IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5'/>
</uninstall>
<profile id='IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5'
installLocation='C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer'>
<data key='eclipseLocation' value='C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer'/>
<data key='user.import.profile' value='false'/>
<data key='cic.selector.nl' value='cs,de,en,es,fr,hu,it,ja,ko,pl,pt_BR,ro,ru,zh,zh_HK,zh_TW'/>
</profile>
</agent-input>
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