Planning to install WebSphere MQ

WebSphere MQ Prerequisites
Hardware requirements
Software requirements
Additional requirements for some features
Non-IBM products
Clients
Delivery
Making WebSphere MQ available
Installing WebSphere MQ for z/OS
National language support
Communications protocol and distributed queuing
Naming conventions
Choosing names for queue managers and queue-sharing groups
Choosing names for objects
Storage classes and Coupling Facility structures
Choosing names for channels
Using command prefix strings
Customizing WebSphere MQ and its adapters
Using queue-sharing groups
Verifying your installation of WebSphere MQ for z/OS
What's changed in WebSphere MQ v6
What's new in WebSphere MQ for z/OS
Security
Reset SSL
PCF commands
MQSC commands
Page sets and buffer pools
Dynamically add or remove buffers in an existing buffer pool
Large page sets
Page set expansion
Dynamically add log data sets to an active queue manager
Display connection information (DISPLAY CONN command)
Commands
Programmable command format (PCF) support
Command tracking notification
Filtering on the DISPLAY commands
Queue sharing group improvements
Support for large messages on shared queues
Availability
Queue manager removal
Queue-sharing group utility
Improved cluster workload management
Improvements to SSL support
Integrated accounting and statistics data formatter
Online monitoring
Channels
Compression of channel data
Channel event control
Message retry on channels
Heartbeat for clients
Support for IPv6
Channel initiator
Dynamic changing of parameters
TCP/IP interface
Multiple TCP/IP stacks
CICS bridge improvements
Multiple bridge monitors
Transaction routing
Pseudoconversational programming model
Additional headers tolerated
Expiration time control
Failed messages to backout requeue queue
Operator messages destination control
Software prerequisites
Removed features
Migration from previous versions
Migration from Version 5.3.1
Additional steps related to migration from Version 5.3
Migration from earlier versions
Migration to full function WebSphere MQ
Reverting to a previous version
Coexistence with earlier versions of WebSphere MQ