Learn how to extend the function of HCL Launch.
You can use these REST interfaces to automate tasks.
The following list shows the commands that are available for the HCL Launch server.
Welcome to the HCL Launch 7.2.2 documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Launch.
This section provides overview and getting started information.
Tutorials and instructions for all experience levels.
An HCL Launch installation consists of the HCL Launch server, a database, and at least one agent.
Learn how to upgrade HCL Launch elements, including the server, agents, and how to migrate data.
Learn how to uninstall an HCL Launch server, or agent.
HCL Launch supports integrations with other IBM® products, products from others, and certain cloud systems.
Learn how to administer settings in HCL Launch elements and communication between the elements.
HCL Launch uses a flexible team-based and role-based security model that maps to your organizational structure.
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.
Learn how to deploy applications in HCL Launch.
provides several different deployment and security reports.
The HCL plug-ins provide tools for creating component processes and integrations. HCL plug-ins provides plug-ins for several common deployment processes, and others are available to integrate with a wide variety of tools, such as middleware tools, databases, and servers.
Notification templates are the basis for emails that the server sends to users after an event occurs on the server. You can create customized notification templates by modifying the default templates provided, or by creating new templates of your own.
Many different programs can run REST commands. To run the command, you call a method on a REST resource and pass parameters or a request in JSON format.
Many REST and command-line client commands have examples in their help topics. A few more examples using various programming languages and scenarios are provided here. The commands are similar for the server.
The way that you authenticate to run REST commands depends on how the server is set up and the tool that you are using to run the commands.
The following example describes how to use the REST commands to deploy an application.
Resources for editing and creating application processes.
Resources for requesting application processes.
Resources for creating, editing, and deleting agents.
Resources for working with component processes.
Resources for working with component templates.
This command creates and Environment from a template and attaches it to the specified application.
A version is considered redundant if all of its files have been replaced by versions that have been deployed more recently to the same environment.
Get all artifacts that are overlapped by later versions. A version is considered safe to rollback if it does not contain overlapping artifacts. It is risky to roll back a version if that version contains overlapping artifacts. This command applies only to z/OS component versions.
This command returns a listing of all resources added as base resources to an environment.
This command returns a JSON array of all of the desired inventory for an environment. It optionally groups the desired inventory by component.
These properties are defined on the component and their values are set on the environment.
This command returns a JSON representation of an environment.
This command returns a JSON array of all of the desired inventory for an environment.
This command provisions an instance of an application blueprint and creates an application environment based on that blueprint.
This command will set a component property value specifically for this environment.
Resources for editing and creating generic processes.
Resources for working with generic process requests.
Resources for listing tags.
CLI is a command-line interface that provides access to the HCL Launch server. It can be used to find or set properties and to run numerous functions.
Programmatically manage processes with PAC language.
Learn how to troubleshoot some common issues with HCL Launch.
