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Install IBM Websphere Application Server ( IBM WAS) in Linux

How to install IBM WAS in linux

How to install IBM WAS in linux

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install IBM Websphere Application Server in linux. WebSphere Application Server is the most popular JEE application platform in the world. Tens of thousands of businesses use it to run more than a million applications.

Prerequisites​

  1. Need to have IBM id to install IBM WAS
  2. Super User or any normal user with SUDO privileges.
  3. IBM Installation Manager installed machine. You can install IBM installation manager using this guide.

Steps to install IBM​

Step 1. Installation of Installation manager, creates a new directory in /opt named as IBM. Now go to this directory and list all available files

cd /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/tools/

Step 2. Now find and save or copy either the latest online BASE repository or the composite repository to install WAS. At this time, following are the above mentioned repositories and THIS is the URL to find these repositories. In this tutorial we will use composite repositories to install IBM WAS.

Repositories to install IBM WAS

Repositories to install IBM WAS

Step 3. List all the available packages in the given repository. As mentioned, we will use the composite repository. And at the time of writing this tutorial, https://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/V9WASBase is the composite repository.

./imcl listAvailablePackages -repositories https://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/V9WASBase -prompt

Note that, here you will be asked to enter the IBM login credentials, such as email id and password. To enter the same, press ‘P’ then ‘email-id’ and then password

Lists of available packages in repo

Lists of available packages in repo

If you are using composite repositories, you will see java jdk, java websphere appClient, websphere base, websphere IHS etc.

Step 4. Now install the IBM WAS of latest version and its corresponding Java version using the below command

./imcl install com.ibm.websphere.BASE.v90_9.0.0.20160526_1854  com.ibm.java.jdk.v8_8.0.7016.20220915_1446 -repositories https://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/V9WASBase -prompt -showProgress -acceptLicense

Installation prompt to enter IBM login details

Installation prompt to enter IBM login details

And this is how you have learnt how to install IBM Websphere Application Server, WAS, successfully in linux using command line.

Other useful article: Install IBM HTTP server in Linux or How to access IBM WAS admin console