Installing an IBM WebSphere MQ client on Windows
This topic describes how to install IBM® WebSphere® MQ client on Windows systems. This procedure can be used for installing a first or a subsequent installation.
Before you begin
About this task
Follow these instructions to perform an interactive compact, typical, or custom installation of IBM WebSphere MQ. To view all the installation types and the features that are installed with each option consult Table 1.
Procedure
Results
A new sample IBM WebSphere MQ MQI client
configuration file is created in the IBM WebSphere MQ installation
directory (for example C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere MQ\,
by the IBM WebSphere MQ MQI client package,
during installation, but only if this file does not exist. This file
contains the ClientExitPath
stanza. An example mqclient.ini file
is shown in Configuring
a client using a configuration file.
If you are using a common configuration file for multiple clients, either in the IBM WebSphere MQ installation directory or in another location using the MQCLNTCF environment variable, you must grant read access to all user identifiers under which the IBM WebSphere MQ client applications run. If the file cannot be read, the failure is traced and the search logic continues as if the file had not existed.
What to do next
- If you have chosen this installation to be the primary installation
on the system, you must now set it as the primary installation. Enter
the following command at the command prompt:
You can have only one primary installation on a system. If there is already a primary installation on the system, you must unset it before you can set another installation as the primary installation. For more information, see Changing the primary installation .MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH
/bin/setmqinst -i -pMQ_INSTALLATION_PATH
- You might want to set up the environment to work with this installation. You can use the setmqenv or crtmqenv command to set various environment variables for a particular installation of IBM WebSphere MQ. For more information, see setmqenv and crtmqenv.
- For instructions on how to verify your installation, see Verifying an IBM WebSphere MQ client installation.