Downloading IBM MQ 9.2.0.15 (fix pack)

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Overview

For updates to IBM MQ 9.2, you choose between Long Term Support (LTS) and Continuous Delivery (CD) releases. LTS is for systems that demand the highest levels of stability. LTS maintenance releases contain fixes to identified problems and vulnerabilities, and do not add new function. For more information, see the IBM MQ FAQ for Long Term Support and Continuous Delivery Releases.

LTS maintenance releases are delivered concurrently on Multiplatforms, z/OS, and the IBM MQ Appliance. For IBM MQ 9.2 LTS, Multiplatforms refers to AIX, IBM i, Linux, and Windows.

From 1Q 2023, there are two types of LTS maintenance release; Fix packs and Cumulative security updates (CSUs):

• Fix packs contain roll-ups of all defects fixed since the previous maintenance release or GA. 
• CSUs contain security patches released since the previous maintenance release or GA.
• Both types of maintenance update the F-digit of the VRMF to a higher number than any previous maintenance.
• Both types of maintenance are mutually cumulative, from the initial release. You can apply any higher numbered fix pack or CSU of the same version/release to upgrade directly to that version level. You do not have to apply the intervening fixes.

For more information, see Changes to IBM MQ's maintenance delivery model.

For a given platform, both types of maintenance are downloaded and installed using the same mechanism: Multiplatforms and IBM MQ Appliance use the existing fix pack delivery mechanism, and z/OS uses PTFs. For UNIX System Services features (that is, JMS and WEB UI, Connector Pack, and Managed File Transfer) the z/OS PTFs are aligned directly with the Multiplatforms fix packs and CSUs. Other PTFs are made available as and when they are produced.

Details of the fixes delivered in this fix pack are here: Fix list for IBM MQ Version 9.2 LTS.

A trial version of the LTS release, for each of the last two IBM MQ major versions, is available for download here.

Downloading the fix pack from Fix Central (IBM MQ Appliance and IBM MQ for Multiplatforms)

To update an existing installation, apply this fix pack to the installation. You are asked to register before you are presented with a set of downloadable files.

• For the IBM MQ Appliance:

  IBM MQ Appliance firmware update

• For Multiplatforms:

  AIX, Linux, Ubuntu, Windows

  IBM i

For checksum information to validate fix pack downloads, see Checksum values for IBM MQ downloads from Fix Central.

Downloading the fix pack for z/OS

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For information about the contents of each of the IBM MQ for z/OS editions, see Downloading IBM MQ 9.2.0 (initial release).

Downloading the release from Passport Advantage (IBM MQ for Multiplatforms)

To create a new installation, or if new operating system support is added to IBM MQ (for example IBM MQ 9.1.0.5 added RHEL 8 support to the Linux on x86 64-bit platform), download and install the release from Passport Advantage then apply this fix pack to the new installation.

For this fix pack, the copy of the release on Passport Advantage was not updated. So after you download and install the release, you need to get the fix pack from Fix Central and apply it to the installation.

Provided your IBM ID is entitled, click a part number in the following table to download either the full production release eAssembly, or any of the eImages that make up the production release. Alternatively, sign in to Passport Advantage then search for the part number you need.

Also available from Passport Advantage (subject to entitlement) is the IBM Aspera fasp.io Gateway (CJ77KML).

Note: Prior to 1Q 2023, non-install images for building your own IBM MQ queue manager container images were available from Passport Advantage. These images are now available on Fix Central. See Other useful links > Containers near the end of this document.

If you install IBM MQ eAssembly images on a UNIX or Linux-based platform, you must use GNU tar (also known as gtar) to unpack any tar images.

A number of IBM MQ resources are also made available on Fix Central and elsewhere.

Clients:

• IBM MQ C and .NET clients
• IBM MQ Java / JMS client
• IBM MQ Java client components (on Maven)
• IBM MQ redistributable clients
• IBM MQ Resource Adapter - For use with any Java EE 7 compliant application server.
• IBM MQ redistributable Managed File Transfer Agents
• IBM MQ classes for .NET Standard (on NuGet)
• IBM MQ classes for XMS .NET Standard (on NuGet)

Components:

• IBM MQ Internet Pass-Thru
• IBM MQ Explorer - This stand-alone installation image is not currently supported on Windows Server 2019. For Windows Server 2019, install from the main IBM MQ installation image from Passport Advantage.
• IBM MQ Native HA on AWS

Containers:

• Pre-built: IBM MQ Advanced certified container - Entitlement needed.
• Build your own: https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-container.

Development:

• IBM MQ Advanced for Developers - Windows / Linux / Ubuntu / Raspberry Pi (as-is, see the readme file).
• IBM MQ Mac Toolkit for Development - Use this toolkit to develop IBM MQ applications on macOS. The client is also used in the IBM MQ tutorials on IBM Developer.
• IBM MQ Advanced for Developers container (on Docker Hub). Or build your own.