Use Copy Packages to create
repositories.
About this task
When you copy update packages from the IBM® site,
you might receive the message: "The update application_version does
not have its base offering (application_version)
in the open set of repositories". In this message, application references
the product and version is the version of the product.
This message indicates that Packaging Utility cannot find the base
offering that is associated with the update offering. In Packaging
Utility, you must either open a repository that contains the base
offering or your destination repository must contain the base offering
to copy the packages.
Procedure
To copy packages:
- On the Source page of the Packaging
Utility, select the packages and fixes that you want to copy and click Next.
Some packages require entitlement for an update or a fix
. If you are not entitled, you cannot select the update or the fix.
The Status column contains a Not entitled message
for versions that are not entitled. Entitlement is based on your IBM ID
credentials. For more information, see IBM ID
credentials Help and FAQ. For information about entitlement,
see IBM Entitlement
Help.
- On the Destination page, click Browse.
Select an existing repository directory, or create a directory to
store the packages and fixes.
Important: If
you specify an existing repository, that repository must be either
on a network directory or on your local computer.
- Click OK.
- Click Next to display the Summary page. The Summary page displays the selected
packages and fixes that are copied into the destination repository.
This page also lists the amount of storage space that the copy requires,
and the amount of available space on the drive.
- Click Copy to copy the selected
packages and fixes to the destination repository. After
the copy process is finished, a Complete page
opens and displays all the packages and fixes that were copied successfully.
- Click Done to return to the Packaging
Utility main page.
What to do next
After you use the Packaging Utility to create a repository,
you can use the Preferences page of IBM Installation Manager to
define this location as a repository. You can place the repository
on a UNC drive on Windows or
on a web server to make the directories and files available over HTTP.
Example of an UNC drive: \\machinename\enterpriserepository