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Idea / RFE Review. Apologies for the length of time this request for enhancement has been in the status uncommitted candidate. As documented in the earlier comments on this RFE, for IIBv10 we changed our strategy for the installer of the product to adopt an unzip installer approach. Whilst we acknowledge that this may not be the optimum for Red Hat users specifically who are familiar with rpm, this does at least give us the benefit of consistency of experience across all the Linux flavours we support. Unfortunately this is not an area which we feel is worthy of further prioritisation at this time, so on this occasion we will be closing this request.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Integration
Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Connectivity and Integration
Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB
Hello IBM Team,
Could you please give details on unzip approach on Linux ? rpm package manager on RedHat Linux like systems is better in atomic installation of software,so that install, uninstall and upgrade process is better managed by rpm/yum tools available on RedHat like systems. If I use a zip file and manage using puppet then there is no way for puppet to keep it in defined state for every puppet run. Because zip is just an extraction/compression tool, not installation tool for Linux.
Please re-think on this request. Any linux system admin will agree that rpm approach is way better than zip/un-zip approach. zip/un-zip approach is not the helping the automation/cloudification.
Thank you for raising this requirement. We acknowledge that the installation of the product, and its integration with technologies such as chef and puppet is a good idea. In fact we've already published some chef scripts for use in conjunction with IIBv9.
You can read about this here:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/c7e1448b-9651-456c-9924-f78bec90d2c2/entry/ibm_integration_bus_chef_cookbook_now_available_on_github?lang=en
You can find the github repository with the scripts here:
https://github.com/ot4i-cookbooks
In IIBv10, the installation process will change quite dramatically - we will be following an unzip approach on Linux platforms. In readiness for v10 you can read about this in our Open Beta documentation:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMKHH_10.0.0/com.ibm.etools.mft.doc/bh25992_.htm
Conceptually we hope that this approach will satisfy the requirement, but before closing this request we are updating the status to Request Info just to be sure you agree?