Installing Marketing Platform

You must run the IBM® EMM installer to start the installation of Marketing Platform. The IBM® EMM installer starts the Marketing Platform installer during the installation process. Make sure that the IBM® EMM installer and the product installer are saved at the same location.

Each time that you run the IBM® EMM Suite installer, you must first enter database connection information for the Marketing Platform system tables. When the Marketing Platform installer starts, you must enter the required information for Marketing Platform.

After installing Marketing Platform, you can create an EAR file for your product, and you can install the reports package for your product. Creating the EAR file and installing the reports package are not mandatory actions.

Before you install Marketing Platform, make sure that the available temporary space on the computer where you install Marketing Platform is more than three times the size of the Marketing Platform installer.

Installation files

The installation files are named according to the version of the product and the operating system on which they must be installed, except UNIX™. For UNIX™, different installation files exist for the X Window System mode and the console mode.

The following table displays examples of the installation files that are named according to the product version and the operating system:

Installation files
Operating system	Installation file
Windows™: GUI and console mode	Product_N.N.N.N_win.exe, where Product is the name of your product, N.N.N.N is the version number of your product, and Windows™ 64-bit is the operating system on which the file must be installed.
UNIX™: X Window System mode	Product_N.N.N.N_solaris.bin, where Product is the name of your product, and N.N.N.N is the version number of your product.
UNIX™: Console mode	Product_N.N.N.N.bin, where Product is the name of your product, and N.N.N.N is the version number of your product. This file can be used for installation on all UNIX™ operating systems.