Installation procedure

The information in this section applies to installation on Windows®, AIX®, Linux®, Solaris, and HP-UX.

At any time during the installation, you can click the Back button on a screen to take you back to previous screens and review or change information. To exit the install procedure and cancel the installation, click the Cancel button on any screen.

Before you start:
  • You are strongly advised to uninstall any previous versions of MQe before installing or reinstalling this new version (see Uninstalling MQe). The installation program does not detect versions of the product prior to Version 1.2.4, and does not display any warnings.
  • If you are using Windows, check that your user id has administrator access. If it does not, the Start Menu icons for IBM® MQe may not appear.
  • If you are using AIX, you must be logged on as the root user in order to run the installation successfully.
To install MQe:
  1. Insert the product CD into your CD-ROM drive.
  2. Start the installation either from the platform specific launcher, or from the setup.jar file:
    • Installing from the platform-specific launcher:
      1. The launchers are held in the platform-specific subdirectories on the product CD. To begin the installation process, run the correct launcher for your platform (for example, setup.exe for Windows).
      2. If you copy the launcher to your local target machine, you also need to copy the setup.jar file into the parent directory of the directory into which you have copied the launcher. The launcher cannot be run from a root directory.
      3. If you run the installation from a launcher and you see a message box with the text No matching JVM was found, the installer was unable to find a Java™ environment to use. If you see this message you need to use the setup.jar file for installation.
      4. To tell the launcher to use a specific JVM, use the following flag:
        setup.exe -is:javahome c:\jdk1.3
        To tell the launcher to use a specific directory to store temporary files, use the following launcher flag:
        setup.exe -is:tempdir c:\mytempdir
    • From the setup.jar file:
      Change to the product CD directory where the setup.jar is stored, and run the installation program using the Java command on your computer. This command is typically java, jre, or jview. For example:
      On Windows
      set classpath=.\setup.jar;%classpath% 
      jview run
      (If you use JVM 1.2.2 or higher, you can execute the jar file by double-clicking it.)
      On Linux, AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX
      CLASSPATH=./setup.jar:$CLASSPATH
      export CLASSPATH
      java run
  3. On the Welcome screen, confirm that you want to install the MQe program by clicking the Next button and then follow the prompts to complete your installation.

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