Welcome
Integrating
HCL Launch supports integrations with other IBM® products, products from others, and certain cloud systems.

Welcome
Welcome to the HCL Launch 7.1.1 documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Launch.
Release information
Overview
This section provides overview and getting started information.
Tutorials
Tutorials are available for every experience level.
Installing
An HCL Launch installation consists of the HCL Launch server, a database, and at least one agent.
Upgrading and migrating
Learn how to upgrade HCL Launch elements, including the server, agents, and blueprint design server, and how to migrate data.
Uninstalling
Learn how to uninstall an HCL Launch server, agent, or blueprint design server.
Integrating
HCL Launch supports integrations with other IBM® products, products from others, and certain cloud systems.
- Integrating with IBM® Rational® Asset Manager
  You can use IBM® Rational® Asset Manager to store and catalog build outputs, test results, and related packages as part of component processes in HCL Launch.
- Integrating with IBM® Rational® Test Workbench
  You can use IBM® Rational® Test Workbench to virtualize services and to run integration tests as part of component processes in HCL Launch.
- z/OS considerations for HCL Launch
  HCL Launch includes support for the z/OS platform. Although the articles in this Knowledge Center for using HCL Launch to deploy applications, certain platform-specific configuration factors must be considered when using a z/OS model.
- Deploying components to the z/OS® platform
  Use the toolkit to deploy to the IBM® z/OS® platform.
Administering
Learn how to administer settings in HCL Launch elements and communication between the elements.
Managing security
HCL Launch uses a flexible team-based and role-based security model that maps to your organizational structure.
Modeling software deployment
Modeling software deployment in HCL Launch includes configuring components and component processes and adding those components to applications. Then, you use processes to deploy the components to environments.
Deploying
Learn how to deploy applications in HCL Launch.
Reporting
provides several different deployment and security reports.
Extending product function
Learn how to extend the function of HCL Launch.
Troubleshooting and support
Learn how to troubleshoot some common issues with HCL Launch.

Overview of integrations

HCL Launch supports integrations with other IBM® products, products from others, and certain cloud systems.

HCL Launch integrates with IBM® UrbanCode™ Release so that you can manage the release of complex interdependent applications. See Integrating with HCL Launch.

Most integrations with HCL Launch are accomplished by using plug-ins. Plug-ins provide tools for creating component processes and integrations.

See the following page on UrbanCode site for information about plug-ins that support other products: UrbanCode Plug-ins.