
Installing maintenance packages for WebSphere Commerce Developer (silent method)
You can use a silent method to install a maintenance package on a WebSphere Commerce Developer environment.
To install silently, IBM Installation Manager requires a response file to provide the input. A response file is generated by installing the maintenance package on a machine by using the interactive method. The options that you choose in the GUI are recorded in a file. Then, you can use the response file on other machines to install the maintenance package silently.Notice: Do not install maintenance package
8.0.1.0 for WebSphere Commerce Developer. Instead, it is recommended
that you install 8.0.1.1 or later. If you installed 8.0.1.0, see Issues with Mod Pack 1 for WebSphere Commerce Developer.
Before you begin

- Ensure that you are logged in with a user ID that is a member of the Windows Administration group.
- Stop all instances of WebSphere Commerce Developer.
- Ensure that Rational Application Developer is not running.
- Backup your system before you create the response file. Creating a response file might create conflicting files on your system. These conflicting files can cause issues when you use the response file to install the maintenance package.
Procedure
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Create a response file.
If you already have a response file, skip to Step 2.
- Copy the response file, response_file_path, to the machines that intend to use the file for a silent installation.
- Open the response file in a text editor.
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Modify the entries in the response file to match the installation options that you want.
- Remove any unnecessary repositories that are in the response file.
- Update any entries as needed to match the machine that will be using the response file.
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On the command line, start the silent installation process:
Where
- response_file_path is the full path of the response file
- log_file_path is the full path of log file, for example c:\logs\maintenance_install.log. The full path must exist, for example, c:\logs\.
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Ensure that the installation was successful by checking the log files.
For example,
- WCDE_installdir\logs\update\8.0.0-WS-WCDeveloperEnterprise-FP00x.install\updatelog.txt
- WCDE_installdir\logs\update\actions\install\installactions.out.log
- log_file_path
Update an alias name in three store JSP files.
Note: This steps is needed only if you installed Mod Pack 3, specifically 8.0.3.0.-
If you are upgrading from 8.0.0.x or 8.0.1.x to 8.0.3.0 or later, then update your wc-server.xml file that is in your source code repository.
IBM updated the workspace_dir\WC\xml\config\wc-server.xml file in 8.0.3.0.
- Review Installing maintenance: Final steps to complete the installation. You might need to enable some fixes that are included in the maintenance package.
What to do next
- Open WebSphere Commerce Developer and switch to the Enterprise Explorer view.
- In the Explorer view, select all projects and select (or the F5 keyboard shortcut) to refresh the projects in the workspace.
- Start or restart the WebSphere Commerce Test Server.
- Right-click the test server in the Servers view and select Publish.
- Wait for the application to finish publishing and to restart.