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How to Download and Install RMC 7.5

David TrentRMC Product Manager

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Download Procedures

IBM Rational Method Composer 7.5 can be obtained 3 ways For customers

Download from Passport Advantage using customer account leveraging existing standalone RMC or suite (e.g. TUP) licenses

Purchasing and receiving physical media

For perspective customers

RMC trial download via developerWorks

– http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rup/

– trial versions are active for 30 days and may be extendable under certain circumstances through IBM Rational field teams

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What RMC 7.5 Images Do I Really Need? Most images are needed

Recommended / required Quick Start Guide; Activation Kit; and RMC 7.5 Tooling and Library Bits (all 6)

Optional (not downloading these will reduce download by 1280+ MB) ITUP 7.1 library IBM IM Toolkit (Linux / Windows)

– Typically used by customers to set up their own install / distribution servers

Title ID DescriptionQuick Start Guide C1PG2ML IBM Rational Method Composer V7.5 Windows/Linux Multilingual

Activation Kit C1SI0ML IBM Rational Method Composer V7.5 Multiplatform Multilingual License Activation Kit

RMC 7.5 Tooling and Library Bits

C1PG3MLC1PG4MLC1PG5MLC1PG6MLC1PG7MLC1PG8ML

IBM Rational Method Composer Multiplatform Multilingual V7.5 Part x of 6

Note: You must download all parts regardless of what you do / do not want

ITUP 7.1 Library C1PG9ML IBM Rational Method Composer V7.5 - ITUP7.1 Libraries Multiplatform Multilingual

IBM IM Toolkit for Windows

C1LE2ML IBM Rational Enterprise Deployment V7.5 for Windows (Includes License Server, Installation Manager and Packaging Utility) Multilingual

IBM IM Toolkit for Linux

C1LE3ML IBM Rational Enterprise Deployment V7.5 for Linux (Includes License Server, Installation Manager and Packaging Utility) Multilingual

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Downloading via Download Director – if used

A Download Director applet will appear

This may trigger a security warning If so, press “Yes” to accept

After providing path where to store files the download will commence If your download is interrupted, Download

Director will allow you to resume!

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Installation Procedures

After skimming the Quick Start guide there are THREE steps:1. Install RMC

2. Activate license for RMC (tooling) using IBM Installation Manager

3. Optionally update RMC (tooling) using IBM Installation Manager

4. Optionally install ITUP library

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The Quick Start Guide

This download (C1PG2ML) is a PDF file

The Quick Start Guide provides a general overview for how to install RMC 7.5 You’ve already accomplished steps 1, 3, and 4 via prior slides

You may want to do step 2 (Evaluate Hardware and System Configuration)

To complete perform steps 5 and 6 – run the installer and follow provided instructions Do keep reading this deck for more additional detail

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Installing RMC – Step 1: Install RMC Unzip all the “RMC 7.5 Tooling and Library

Bits” to the same directory CP1PG3ML through CP1PG8ML This will make a composite set of “RMC

install bits” in a “disk1” directory

“Release Information” and “Install Guide” are good references You may want to open and read before

installing!

Install from disk1 directory using launchpad.exe Select “Install IBM Rational Method

Composer”; click “Launch Installer” Click on “Check for other versions and

Extensions” to download; press “Next” Accept terms; press “Next” Location tab: press “Next” Features tab: select additional desired

languages (if any); press “Next”; press “Next” Summary tab: Press “Install” “Finish”, “Exit” installer

Go immediately to steps 2 & 3! Do not start using tool (yet) or you may forget

to do these steps!

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Installing RMC – Step 2: Activate License

RMC 7.5 requires that RMC be “activated” to become ‘permanent’ This is the same as how RMC 7.2 worked

Otherwise, the installed product is a ‘trial’ version and will expire in 30 days

There is no ‘license’ required; only the activation kit

Requires file C1SI0ML.zip from the download Unzip C1SI0ML.zip to reveal the

Activation Kit (remember location)

If you do not have this file go back tothe “How to Download RMC” slide

Follow the instructions, except asyou don’t need to download everythinginstead of “select all” choose toexpand the eAssembly and choosethe missing file

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Launch “IBM Installation Manager” from Start Menu

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Use IBM Installation Manager to Activate Product

Select “Manage Licenses”

If there are multiple IBM products managed using IBM on your machine RMC 7.5 may not default Select “IBM Rational Method

Composer 7.5”

Select “Import product Activation Kit”

Press “Next”

Browse and select .jar file from C1SI0ML unzip location

Press “Next”

Accept Terms; press “Finish”

You will receive validation of installation of a “permanent” license

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Installing RMC – Step 3: (Optional) Update RMC

Any fix packs, etc. need to be applied via IBM Installation Manager (which is already open from Step 3) In the future if you want to get apply

RMC tooling updates do this as well

Select “Update” from IBM IM

Select “IBM Rational Method Composer 7.5” (and any thing else you want updated at the same time); Press “Next” No updates may be available – no

further options will be provided

Otherwise, apply desired updates

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Installing RMC – Step 4: (Optional) Unzip ITUP Library

Optionally unzip C1PG9ML.zip for ITUP library and published content to a temporary location Read the “readme.txt” file to better understand what is provided

In a nutshell: both the ITUP library (in the “content” directory) and the published ITUP web site (in the “published” directory) have been provided

Unzip ITUP for the language(s) you desire Refer to “readme.txt” for language extensions “Content” directory

Although you can unzip this anywhere, placing it in the same directory location as the RUP and Practice libraries may be convenient for future browsing– Assuming the default install directory was used, unzip to:

C:\Program Files\IBM\RMC75\rmc It is a best practice to copy the entire zipped ITUP library to this directory as a backup

– You will find that there are already two zip files in this directory which are backups for the RUP and Practices libraries!

“Published” directory Although you can unzip this anywhere, placing it in the same directory location as the RUP

and Practice libraries may be convenient for future browsing– Assuming the default install directory was used, first create a new directory in:

C:\Program Files\IBM\RMC75\rmc (e.g. “Published ITUP”)– Not creating a new directory will mix the published ITUP site with your RMC install –

not a problem, but messy– Unzip files to the directory you created

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Installation FYIs

Where did it install? New default directory structure: C:\Program Files\IBM\RMC75

RMC 7.2 installed to: C:\Program Files\IBM\RMC72

Prior versions installed to: C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\Rational Method Composer x.y

Windows Start Menu RMC is labeled as “IBM Rational Method Composer 7.5”

– RMC tooling: “Method Composer” - used to create, customize, and publish content… and more!

– RMC published content: “IBM Practices” and “IBM Rational Unified Process” is available via the sub-directories

IBM Installation Manager (as covered in this ppt in steps 2 & 3 of install)

Note: Multiple versions of RMC can co-exist on one machine!

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Installation FYIs

What about shortcuts? One is not automatically

To create one navigate to C:\Program Files\IBM\RMC75\RMC

To create a shortcut for the default RMC tooling launch: right-click on “RMC.exe”, choose “Create Shortcut”, drag-and-drop shortcut to desired location (e.g. Desktop), and rename to “RMC 7.5”

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Getting Started with RMC Tooling

The first time you open RMC tooling you are presented with many things! Overview, What’s New, First Steps, Tutorials, Web Resources, Workbench

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Leveraging the RMC Libraries

RMC 7.5 ships with two content libraries The “RUP” library remains the default

library initially displayed Default installation path

The “Practices” library can be opened via File | Open | Method Library Default installation path

The Practices library leverages a new Process Builder perspective This perspective allows quick selection

of practices to jump start an initial configuration

Return to Authoring perspective after creation to customize further or publish