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!
Let's start!

- 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>
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:
- Restart the application server as describred in this link
Now HCL Workload Automation is up and running with Open Liberty
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.
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.