Purpose – To install and remove WebSphere Application Server ND v9 product features using imcl and response files

Pre-requisites –

RHEL or CentOS 7

Application with pre-EJB 3.0 modules – For enterprise applications containing EJB modules based on specifications before EJB 3.0, which are not supported by Java EE 7, will need to install EJBDeploy tool to generate the deployment code for enterprise beans.

Application with EJB 3.0 modules and latest – For enterprise applications, which are developed using EJB 3.0 modules and later EJBDeploy tool, is not required. WebSphere Application server uses a new feature called JITDeploy, which automatically generates the deployment code for enterprise beans when the application starts.

EJB modules in a Java EE 7 application uses JITDeploy by default even if they are based on specifications before EJB 3.0 if EJBDeploy tool is not installed and utilized.

IBM thin clients provide a set of clients for various technologies such as JAX-WS, JAX-RPC, JAX-RS, XML, EJB, JPA, JMS, and more.

IBM resource adapters provide resource adapters for JMS.

Embeddable EJB containers provide a JAR file that can be used to run enterprise beans in stand-alone Java SE environment.

Contains sample applications for learning and demonstration purpose

Procedure –

Here we are going to assume that you have the WebSphere Application Server ND v9 product is installed at following location show below. Also we are going see how we can install a particular feature or a set of features using both imcl utility and using response.

WAS_HOME – /opt/IBM/WebSphere9

ECLIPSE_HOME – /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/tools

[root@desktop1 tools]# ./imcl listInstalledPackages

com.ibm.cic.agent_1.8.5000.20160506_1125

com.ibm.java.jdk.v8_8.0.5000.20170906_1259

com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90_9.0.4.20170523_1327

ejbdeploy

embeddablecontainer

thinclient

Step2: Install a particular feature using imcl

Here let’s try to install samples application feature

[root@desktop1 tools]# ./imcl modify com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90 -addFeatures samples -repositories http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90-installationDirectory /opt/IBM/WebSphere9 -secureStorageFile /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/secureStorageFile.txt

[root@desktop1 tools]# ./imcl listInstalledFeatures com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90

ejbdeploy

embeddablecontainer

thinclient

[root@desktop1 tools]# ls -ld /opt/IBM/WebSphere9/samples/

Step3: Uninstall a particular feature using imcl

Let us try to uninstall two features ‘embeddablecontainer’ and ‘thinclient’ now using imcl

[root@desktop1 tools]# ./imcl modify com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90 -removeFeatures thinclient,embeddablecontainer -repositories http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90 -installationDirectory /opt/IBM/WebSphere9 -secureStorageFile /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/secureStorageFile.txt

[root@desktop1 tools]# ./imcl listInstalledFeatures com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90

ejbdeploy

samples

Step4: Install a particular feature using response file

Now, let try to install the removed features using a response file

Response File –

[root@desktop1 tools]# cat install_features.txt

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

<agent-input clean=’true’ temporary=’true’>

<server>

<repository location=”http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90″ />

</server>

<offering id=’com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90′

  profile=’IBM WebSphere Application Server V9.0′

  features=’thinclient,embeddablecontainer’/>

</install>

<offering id=’com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90′

  profile=’IBM WebSphere Application Server V9.0′

  features=’samples’/>

</uninstall>

<profile id=’IBM WebSphere Application Server V9.0′

  installLocation=’/opt/IBM/WebSphere9′>

<data key=’eclipseLocation’ value=’/opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/tools’/>

<data key=’user.import.profile’ value=’false’/>

<data key=’cic.selector.nl’ value=’en’/>

</profile>

</agent-input>

[root@desktop1 tools]# ./imcl -acceptLicense input /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/install_features.txt -secureStorageFile /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/secureStorageFile.txt

[root@desktop1 tools]# ./imcl listInstalledFeatures com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90

ejbdeploy

embeddablecontainer

thinclient

As you can see, we have removed the samples feature and installed thinclient and embeddablecontainer

Step5: Uninstall a particular feature using response file

Now lets try to uninstall the thinclient feature

Response File –

[root@desktop1 tools]# cat uninstall_features.txt

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

<agent-input clean=’true’ temporary=’true’>

<server>

<repository location=”http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90″ />

</server>

<offering id=’com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90′

  profile=’IBM WebSphere Application Server V9.0′

  features=’thinclient’/>

</uninstall>

<profile id=’IBM WebSphere Application Server V9.0′

  installLocation=’/opt/IBM/WebSphere9′>

<data key=’eclipseLocation’ value=’/opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/tools’/>

<data key=’user.import.profile’ value=’false’/>

<data key=’cic.selector.nl’ value=’en’/>

</profile>

</agent-input>

[root@desktop1 tools]# ./imcl -acceptLicense input /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/uninstall_features.txt -secureStorageFile /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/secureStorageFile.txt

[root@desktop1 tools]# ./imcl listInstalledFeatures com.ibm.websphere.ND.v90

ejbdeploy

embeddablecontainer

Please note, the list of the files that get generated once you install thinclient, embeddablecontainer

Features

[root@desktop1 tools]# ls -ltr /opt/IBM/WebSphere9/runtimes/*thinclient*

[root@desktop1 tools]# ls -ltr /opt/IBM/WebSphere9/runtimes/*embeddableContainer*

Hope you enjoyed reading this article. Thank you.