How To
Summary
Using Windows wmic and reg to find the IBM MQ Installations and their IBM MQ Components
Objective
You want to use command line utilities in Windows to find out the MQ Installations (such as Installation1 and Installation2) and the installed MQ Components (such as Server, Client, Explorer) that are in each of the Installations.
Specifically, you want to know if a particular MQ Installation is Client-only (no server code).
Steps
When using the Windows reg.exe command as described below, there are 2 entries of interest:
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If you see an entry that looks like this, then it means that the server code for queue managers has been installed:
Server REG_SZ Installed
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If you see an entry that looks like this, then it means that the server code for queue managers has been installed:
Server REG_SZ Installed
If you see an entry that looks like this, then it means that the client code has been installed:
Local Clients\Windows NT Client REG_SZ Installed
Local Clients\Windows NT Client REG_SZ Installed
Note:
If you see the entry for "Local Clients\Windows NT Client" and if you do NOT see the entry for "Server", then this means that this is a Client-only installation.
In the example b.2 below, notice that there is no entry for "Server".
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\IBM\WebSphere MQ\Installation\Installation2\Components
Local Clients\Windows NT Client REG_SZ Installed
Explorer REG_SZ Installed
JRE REG_SZ Installed
If you see the entry for "Local Clients\Windows NT Client" and if you do NOT see the entry for "Server", then this means that this is a Client-only installation.
In the example b.2 below, notice that there is no entry for "Server".
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\IBM\WebSphere MQ\Installation\Installation2\Components
Local Clients\Windows NT Client REG_SZ Installed
Explorer REG_SZ Installed
JRE REG_SZ Installed
Additional Information
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Modified date:
23 March 2022
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