Endevor Eclipse Plug-in: Silent install commands for use with Eclipse P2 director

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

We are working on an enterprise upgrade of our IBM Developer for z/OS package.  We are including the Endevor Eclipse Plug-in in this package and are curious if you happen to have the command that would be used to do a silent install of the plug-in via the Eclipse P2 director.  

Environment

Endevor V19

Endevor Eclipse UI

Resolution

Method 1:

If the access to external website is allowed by the company security policy, use the following command to do the silent install of Eclipse UI plugin:

<targetProductFolder>/eclipsec.exe
   -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director
   -repository https://packages.broadcom.com/ca-plugins/endevor-plugin/
   -installIU com.ca.endevor.uiProject/<version>
   -nosplash

 

Where

https://packages.broadcom.com/ca-plugins/endevor-plugin/:  is the repository URL for Endevor Eclipse plugin. 
com.ca.endevor.uiProject: is the plugin ID
<version>: is the version in P2 metadata, for example the latest Eclipse UI plugin version in P2 metadata is 19.1.2.202505291518 

 

Method 2: 

If the access to an external website is blocked by the company security policy, use the archive file (plug-in .zip). Here is the instruction:

For Endevor V19, run WSTOMINS with ACTION=ECLIPSE to install Eclipse UI archive file to USS. 
Then use following command to do the silent install for Endevor Eclipse UI

<targetProductFolder>/eclipsec.exe
   -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director
   -repository <protocol>://<host>:<port>/Eclipse-BasedUI/
   -installIU com.ca.endevor.uiProject/<version>
   -nosplash  

Where 

<protocol>: is the Endevor Web Services Tomcat protocol
<host>: is the Endevor Web Services Tomcat host
<port>: is the Endevor Web Services Tomcat port
com.ca.endevor.uiProject: is the plugin ID
<version>: is the version in P2 metadata, for example the latest Eclipse UI plugin version in P2 metadata is 19.1.2.202505291518