Best practices for installing Application Client for WAS

This page provides tips for installing Application Client on multiple platforms.

 

All platforms

The following tips apply to installing Application Client on all platforms:

• Reserve at least 4 to 5MB free space in the target platform temporary directory. IBM recommends that we have 350 MB of temporary disk space available before starting the installation.

• When specifying a different temporary directory while installing Application Client, the following message is displayed if the target platform default temporary directory does not have enough free space to install Application Client:

  Error writing file =  There may not be enough temporary disk space. Try using -is:tempdir to use a temporary  directory on a partition with more disk  space.
  
  

  Use the -is:tempdir installation option to specify a different temporary directory. For example, the following command uses /swap as a temporary directory during installation:

  ./install -is:tempdir /swap
  

• After the installation, when changing the installation settings for the WAS host name and the port number, edit the setupClient file.

  • [AIX] [HP-UX] [Linux] [Solaris]

    setupClient.bat

  • (Windows) setupClient.sh

  Change the DEFAULTSERVERNAME and SERVERPORTNUMBER to the new WAS host name and port number, respectively. If the SERVERPORTNUMBER is not set, then the default is 2809. Review the following example:

  set DEFAULTSERVERNAME=NDServerName set SERVERPORTNUMBER=9810
  
  

  The setupClient file is located in the bin subdirectory under the Application Client installation destination.

 

Specific platforms

The following tips pertain to installing Application Client on the designated platforms:

• [AIX] [HP-UX] [Linux] [Solaris]

  Spaces are not supported in the name of the installation directory on Linux and UNIX platforms.

• [AIX] [HP-UX] [Solaris]

  When the installation is successful, the return code 0 is issued from the UNIX shell where you issued the /install command. Other return codes include:

  • 1 -- Failure

  • 2 -- Partial success

  Any other return code indicates an unsuccessful installation.

• Double-byte character set (DBCS) characters are not supported in the name of the installation directory on Solaris systems.

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