Applying service updates to IBM Integration Bus Healthcare Pack
Apply service updates by installing a fix pack.
Before you begin
Before
you begin, complete the following tasks:
- Find the latest information about upgrades, see Finding the latest information for IBM Integration Bus Healthcare Pack.
- Find out about coexistence and migration, see Coexistence and migration.
- If you are using applications and interfaces that use the MRM HL7 message set, see Upgrading to IBM Integration Bus Healthcare Pack Version 4.0.0.0.
About this task
You can apply a service update by downloading the latest fix pack from the IBM Support Portal; see IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere® Message Broker support web page. Before you apply service updates, you must uninstall the existing level.
Procedure
To apply service updates, complete the following steps:
- Uninstall your current IBM Integration Bus Healthcare Pack; see Uninstalling IBM Integration Bus Healthcare Pack.
- In the Download section of the support
page, click Recommended fixes. The available links are displayed.
- Select IBM Integration Bus Healthcare
Pack.
The available fixes are displayed.
- Click the fix that you want to download. Details about the fix, and instructions for download and installation are displayed.
- To find out about the PMRs, APARs, and defects that are fixed by the fix pack, click Problems fixed.
- To read more details about the fix pack contents, click Release notes.
- To start the download process, go to the Download package section, click HTTPS.
- Sign on to the download site by using your IBM ID. If you do not have an IBM ID, you can register on the IBM Support Portal page; see IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere Message Broker support web page.
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Install the fix pack. For installation instructions, see Installing and uninstalling IBM Integration Bus Healthcare Pack.
The procedure for installing a fix pack is the same as for installing a new copy of IBM Integration Bus Healthcare Pack.
- Complete the postinstallation steps, see Completing postinstallation steps for IBM Integration Bus Healthcare Pack.
- To ensure that the IBM Integration Bus Healthcare Pack message flow nodes are updated, you must rebuild your BAR files, redeploy them, and restart your integration nodes.
- On Windows and Linux®, in your pattern instances, to avoid overwriting any customized files, save the files that you customized in a separate project. In the IBM Integration Toolkit, regenerate your pattern instances.