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Mark, Do you think it would be ok to use eclipse 3.0 instead of WDSc to run this? The reason is I want to put it on a server and schedule it to run, and I don't really want to go through a WDSc install on the server. I did a test run and it seemed to be ok. Thanks, Chris >>> markp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 02/22/06 10:22 AM >>> > Is there a way to copy down the update for WDSC version 6.0 to a network > drive instead of me having to use the updater for the next 6 machines I > have to install this on? Yes, Eclipse provides such a facility. I have been meaning to write this up in a formal document and post it, but I have not had the time. Here is the basic gist of it. When you are installing updates, you are talking to an Eclipse "Update Site" which is just an XML file which points to the updates that are in JAR files. This is all served via a standard HTTP server. What you can do is create your own internal update site. Eclipse then provides a facility for mirroring and consolidating one or more remote update sites to your update site as well as redirecting the install/update mechanism to use this internal site instead of the remote site. Step 1: Setup an HTTP Server (on any platform/OS). I am using my OS/400 Apache Server. For reference purposes later on, let's assume you can access the folder that this HTTP Server is serving from your PC via the UNC path name \\WEBSERVER\web-root Step 2: Run Eclipse process to create a mirror of the WDSC update sites. I created a batch file for this process which I run regularly. The process is intelligent enough to just grab the latest updates. This is what is in my batch file: REM Modify these variables as appropriate set drive=C: set wdsc=\IBM\WDSC\6.0 set local=\wdsc_site set remote=\\WEBSERVER\web-root\wdsc6_updates set url=http://webserver/wdsc6_updates %drive% CD %wdsc%\eclipse REM Get Updates for Product Updater java -cp startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main -application org.eclipse.update.core.standaloneUpdate -command mirror -from http://www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/updater/60/update -to %drive%\%local% -mirrorURL %url%/site.xml REM Get Updates for Rational Web Developer java -cp startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main -application org.eclipse.update.core.standaloneUpdate -command mirror -from http://www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/rwd/60/update -to %drive%\%local% -mirrorURL %url%/site.xml REM Get Updates for WDSC java -cp startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main -application org.eclipse.update.core.standaloneUpdate -command mirror -from http://www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/websphere/iseries/wdsc600/update -to %drive%\%local% -mirrorURL %url%/site.xml REM Copy to Web Server cd %local% xcopy . %remote% /S /Y /D REM End of batch file To use this batch file you would just need to adjust the set statements at the top. Also, this is only pulling updates for WDSC Standard Edition. It could easily be adjusted to update the Advanced Edition by changing the IBM URL's being mirrored. The first time you run this process it has to download nearly 3 GB of updates. It will download them to your local mirror of the update site, and then it copies this mirror to your web server. If you run the Web server on Windows, and install Eclipse or WDSC on that server, you could avoid having two copies of the mirror. You could also likely just adjust the batch file so that it was mirroring to a mapped network drive that was the web server folder. The Eclipse documentation for the features being used can be found here: http://help.eclipse.org/help30/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/update_standalone.html Step 3: The above process, in addition to mirroring the update sites, creates a file named policy.xml which contains the instructions that tells Eclipse to redirect to your local update site. To make WDSC use this file, you need to open the Rational Product Updater on each PC. Then choose Preferences -> Update Sites from its menu and enter this URL in the field for the policy file: http://webserver/wdsc6_updates/policy.xml Of course update the URL as appropriate. Once this is done, whenever you check for updates it is checking your local web server and installing from it. You just need to re-run the batch file whenever there are some new updates from IBM and it will update your local mirror with the latest updates. This has worked well for us internally. It may sound daunting and a lot of work, but it is a good long term strategy for managing the deployment and update of WDSC across multiple systems. Mark _____________________________________________________________________________ Scanned for SoftLanding Systems, Inc. and SoftLanding Europe Plc by IBM Email Security Management Services powered by MessageLabs. _____________________________________________________________________________
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