Installation Manager overview

IBM® Installation Manager is a program for installing, updating, and modifying packages. It helps you manage the IBM applications, or packages, that it installs on your computer. Installation Manager also helps you track what you installed, determine what is available for you to install, and organize installation directories.

Installation Manager provides tools that help you keep packages up to date, modify the packages, manage the licenses for your packages, and uninstall the packages from your computer. For detailed information about Installation Manager, see the information center for the latest version at: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27010911

Installation Manager includes seven wizards that make it easy to maintain packages throughout their lifecycles:

The Install wizard walks you through the installation process. You can install a package by accepting the defaults, or you can modify the default settings to create a custom installation. Before you install, you are provided with a complete summary of your selections throughout the wizard. Using the wizard you can install one or more packages at one time.
The Update wizard searches for available updates to packages that you installed. An update might be a released fix, a new feature, or a new version of the product. Details of the contents of the update are provided in the wizard. You can choose whether to apply an update.
With the Modify, wizard you can modify certain elements of a package that you already installed. During the first installation of the package, you select the features that you want to install. If you find later that you require other features, you can use the modify packages wizard to add them to your package. You can also remove features and add or remove languages.
The Manage Licenses wizard helps you set up the licenses for your packages. Use this wizard to change your trial license to a full license, to set up your servers for floating licenses, and to select which type of license to use for each package.
The Import wizard adds existing packages that were installed using installation tools other than Installation Manager to the list of installed packages. Installation Manager tracks the inventory of all products that it installs, including their selectable features and maintenance updates. Some products that currently can be installed using Installation Manager, however, possibly used a different installation technology to install an earlier version on your system. Installation Manager must import information about any existing installations of these products before it can modify and update them.
Note: This wizard is available only after Installation Manager detects a package in a repository that requires this feature.
The Roll Back wizard enables you to revert to a previous version of a package.
The Uninstall wizard removes a package from your computer. You can uninstall more than one package at a time.