Installing WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition
This topic details the preparation you must do before installing WebSphere® MQ File Transfer Edition.
Before you install WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition, check that your system meets both the hardware and software requirements of the product. For all platforms, you must have one WebSphere MQ Version 7.0 queue manager available in your WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition network to use as the coordination queue manager.
See the web page WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition System Requirements for hardware and software prerequisites.
Product options
WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition can be installed as three different options, depending on your operating system and overall setup. These options are WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Server, WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Client, and WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition for z/OS®.
What you must install
- To use WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition you must install at least one WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Server and at least one other type of WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Client, so that you can create two agents that can communicate. You might want to install more than one Server and more than one WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Client.
- To work with WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition using a graphical user interface (GUI) you must install the WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition plug-in for WebSphere MQ Explorer. This plug-in is available from the WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Remote Tools and Documentation DVD.
- WebSphere MQ
File Transfer Edition requires
at least one Version 7 WebSphere MQ
queue manager to act as the coordination queue manager. However, you can configure WebSphere MQ
File Transfer Edition to
transfer files among a network of Version 6 queue managers, Version
7 queue managers, or a mixture of both.
For information about configuring topologies of queue managers for use with WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition, see Configuring the coordination queue manager and Configuring WebSphere MQ queue managers.
For more help on connecting WebSphere MQ queue managers start with the information here: WebSphere MQ distributed-messaging techniques.