Silent installations using response files

IBM® Installation Manager can generate a properties file, known as a response file, when you are running the interactive installation program. You can edit an existing response file or create your own.

Silent installations, like graphical installations, consist of two parts:
  1. Extracting InfoSphere® MDM assets onto the file system and preparing the madconfig configuration tool. In both graphical and silent installations, this step is performed by IBM Installation Manager.
  2. Configuring InfoSphere MDM by running the installation configuration command line tool (madconfig Configure_MasterDataManagement).
Tip: Unlike a graphical installation, however, silent installations provide you with the option to run both steps (extract and configure) together in a single stage. To achieve this, configure the response file to automatically start the installation configuration tool:
  1. Open the response file in a text editor.
  2. Modify the following variable so that the value is true:
    <!-- Launching configuration process from Installation Manager -->
<data key='user.L2.launch.config.from.silent.install.flag,com.ibm.mdm.advanced' value='true'/>
  3. To change the setting so that the configuration tool does not start automatically, change the value of the variable to be false.