IBM® Passport Advantage® web site provides
access to all of your entitled software; you can download products
directly to your computer for installation, and download the Quick
Start Guide for information how to get started installing IBM Sametime®.
Before you begin
Passport
Advantage provides access to your IBM software
purchases, so you can download products directly to the computers
where you want to install them. For information on the Passport Advantage program, review
the program overview. For assistance with Passport
Advantage, contact eCustomer care contact information.
Downloading products from Passport Advantage requires an IBM customer ID; if you do not have
one, you must register with the site:
- Open a browser and navigate to Passport
Advantage sign-in page.
- Complete the new customer registration form.
- Click Register.
When you receive your IBM customer
ID, proceed to download products as explained in the following procedure,
which is also described in the IBM technote
How to download software from Passport Advantage
Online website.
Procedure
- Open a browser and navigate to the Passport
Advantage sign-in page.
- Click Customer sign in
- Enter your IBM customer
ID and password, and then click Sign in.
- On the "Software and services online" page, click Software
download & media access.
- On the "Find downloads & media" page, click Download
finder.
Passport Advantage displays list
of your entitled downloads (products that you have purchased).
- Click a product to select it, and then click Continue to
search for its downloadable packages.
Tip: If
you know a download package's part number (specified in the Download
document for each product), you can search on that part number to
quickly find the downloadable package.
Software products
are posted "assemblies" containing different versions of the product
for use with various operating systems and languages. Packaging varies
depending on the size and complexity of each product.
- Under "Select criteria", select a language and platform
(operating system) for the product you want to download.
- Under "Download options", select Yes for
the option "If available, would you like to see associated products
at no additional charge?".
This ensures that you can
view and download optional products that are used with the primary
product (for example, an LDAP directory server where you can store
user names).
- Click Continue.
Passport Advantage displays
the list of assemblies (packages) for the selected criteria.
- Select your download:
- Select an assembly to download all of its included packages:
- Click the + to expand the assembly
so you can select individual packages:
Important: You should always download a copy of
the product's Quick Start Guide because it provides an
overview of the product installation as well as links to additional
documentation.
- Select items to download and scroll to the end of the page.
- Review the license agreement, and click I agree.
- Click Download and select a location
on your computer to store the downloaded files.