If you have Rational Business Developer or Rational Developer for i installed and want to install the latest updates then make sure you do not apply the update to the Rational Update Manager. If you do then the 1.4.1 version of the Update Manager is not compatable with 7.5 updates for Rational Business Developer. You ill get an error like this
- Updating IBM Rational Developer for i to 7.5.0.x is not allowed
There is nothing mentioned about this in the info center about this, unless they read my feedback it even still says update your update manager to install the fix. Very likely as well you have your update manager set to check for updates. So by the time you install the patch you will see the problem, you will look and if you are lucky you will find this link www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=&uid=swg21439225.
We ended up uninstalling the update manager and downloading the 1.3 version that they list in the fix page then installing the fix which did work, but its all a waste of time. You waste your time trying to find the error, updating the update manager uninstalling the update manager and reinstalling the update manager. As for being told why don’t you update to V7.6 that will probably not work for a lot of people. Also no consideration for users on low bandwidth connections, yes it would be great to do but that would be in a users plan. or it is an interesting way to force users to update by breaking the normal process.