Publications supplied with the product

The WebSphere® MQ documentation is supplied separately on a CD alongside the product. You can either view the documents directly from CD, or you can install them on your computer (either before or after installing the WebSphere MQ product).

The WebSphere MQ online documentation is delivered as a help center integrated with WebSphere MQ, and PDF formats on CD.

Help Center

You can view the WebSphere MQ help center by selecting Help > Help Contents > WebSphere MQ Help Center from the WebSphere MQ Explorer. All books are available in U.S. English. Some of the books are also available in some of the following national languages:
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Spanish
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese

When you read the books in the help center, you can follow hypertext links from one book to another. If you are reading translated books and link to a book that is not available in your national language, the U.S. English version of the book is opened instead.

PDF

A PDF (Portable Document Format), corresponding to each hardcopy book, is available on the documentation CD. You can read PDFs using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Also, you can download them to your own file system, or you can print them on a PostScript printer.

The PDFs are available in U.S. English in the en_US directory, and also in some or all of the following national languages. To find out which ones are available in your language, look for the appropriate directory on the CD. The PDFs are in a subdirectory called ll_LL, where ll_LL is one of the following:
  • de_DE (German)
  • es_ES (Spanish)
  • fr_FR (French)
  • it_IT (Italian)
  • ja_JP (Japanese)
  • ko_KR (Korean)
  • pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • zh_CN (Simplified Chinese)
  • zh_TW (Traditional Chinese)

Within these directories, you can find the complete set of PDFs that are available. Table 2 shows the file names used for the PDF files.