Moving from IBM Liberty Base To Open Liberty

If you have IBM Liberty Base installed in your environment, but you want to move to Open Liberty the procedure is really simple!
 Let's start!

• Check the release notes to ensure the latest Open Liberty version is supported by HCL Workload Automation. You can find the Release Notes at this link
• Download Open Liberty from this link and download “All GA Features ” zip

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• Stop the application server as described in this link

• Create a backup of the current IBM Liberty Base instance in a directory different from the Open Liberty installation directory

• Extract all the Open Liberty data from the .zip folder
• NOTE: Be sure to use the same folder name that was used to install HCL Workload Automation with IBM Liberty​ 
• WINDOWS (PowerShell or use zip/unzip software):
  Expand-Archive -Path <openliberty_download_dir>\openliberty-<version>.zip -DestinationPath <install_dir>
  

LINUX:
unzip <openliberty_download_dir>/openliberty-<version>.zip -d <install_dir>

​IMPORTANT (LINUX ONLY):

• Assign reading, writing and processing permissions to libraries that are contained in the folder:

chmod -R 755 /open_liberty_installation_directory

• Restart the application server as describred in this link

Now HCL Workload Automation is up and running with Open Liberty

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Simone Grammatico, IT Specialist and QA Tester

​Simone is an IT Specialist and QA Tester at HCL Technologies with 20 years of experience as a consultant to public administration clients and later, since 2012, as a QA business software tester. Today, he is in charge of customer support (L3), FixPacks release, and Security Test (PSIRT) of Workload Automation.