Installing

Installation information for WebSphere Message Broker is provided in the WebSphere Message Broker Installation Guide, which is supplied in hard copy with your product media. The guide provides general planning and security information for all platforms. It also provides full installation instructions for distributed systems. If you are installing on z/OS, the equivalent installation instructions are provided in the Program Directory, also supplied in hard copy with your product media.

Find out how to access the Installation Guide in PDF.

Check in Finding the latest information that you have the most recent installation information available.

Refer to Installing complementary products if you want to install complementary products such as Rational Agent Controller.

When you have installed the product on distributed systems, you must initialize the local environment before you can create or configure resources. This is described in Setting up a command environment. This is not required on z/OS.

Refer to Configuring the broker domain for information about how to design and configure your broker domain on all systems.

If fixes or updates are made available, refer to the following topics for information about how to apply these:

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