Launching MQ Explorer
You can launch MQ Explorer by using one of three methods; by using the system menu, the MQExplorer command, or the strmqcfg command.
To launch MQ Explorer by using the system menu on Linux®, or the start menu on Windows, you must left-click on the installation that you want to launch. On Windows, open the start menu, and select the MQ Explorer installation entry under the IBM WebSphere MQ group that corresponds to the installation that you want to launch. Each instance of MQ Explorer listed is identified by the name that you chose for its installation.
On Linux, the system menu entry for MQ Explorer is added to the Development category; where it appears within the system menu is dependent on your Linux distribution (SUSE or Red Hat), and your desktop environment (GNOME or KDE). On SUSE, left-click Computer > More Applications..., and find the installation of MQ Explorer that you want to launch under the Development category. On Red Hat, the installation of MQ Explorer that you want to launch can be found under Applications > Programming.
The MQExplorer command and the strmqcfg command are stored
in MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH/bin.
- -clean
- Clean the caches used by the eclipse runtime to store bundle dependency resolution and eclipse extension registry data. Using this option forces eclipse to reinitialize these caches.
- -initialize
- Initializes the configuration being run. All runtime-related data structures and caches are refreshed. Any user/plug-in defined configuration data is not purged. No application is run, any product specifications are ignored and no UI is presented (for example, the splash screen is not drawn).
You can enter either the MQExplorer command or the strmqcfg command from the command line to launch MQ Explorer. For more information about the strmqcfg command, see strmqcfg in the IBM® MQ online product documentation.
If you have multiple installations of IBM MQ, see Multiple installations of MQ Explorer.
To trace MQ Explorer, use the runwithtrace.cmd; see Troubleshooting