Authority to use WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition commands
Your user ID must be a member of the mqm group if you want to issue WebSphere® MQ File Transfer Edition commands, unless you have already configured WebSphere MQ to allow users who are not in the mqm group to issue commands. For more information, see Authority to administer WebSphere MQ. If you are using IBM® i, start with the following topic: WebSphere MQ authorities.
A subset of the WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition commands can be issued using the WebSphere MQ Explorer.
Issuing commands from Windows and UNIX systems
Note the following environment-specific information for issuing commands:- WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition for Windows
- All commands can be issued from a command line. Command names
are not case-sensitive: You can enter them in uppercase, lowercase,
or a combination of uppercase and lowercase. However, arguments to
control commands (such as queue names) and parameters (such as -m for
queue manager name) are case-sensitive.
In the syntax descriptions, the hyphen (-) is used as a flag indicator.
- WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition for UNIX systems
- All WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition commands can be issued from a shell. All commands are case-sensitive.
Issuing commands from z/OS systems
The WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition commands are installed in the bin subdirectory of the location chosen when the product was installed. The commands can be executed by specifying the path to the command or including the bin subdirectory in the user command path.
Note the following environment-specific information for issuing commands on z/OS®:- You must set the environment variable _BPXK_AUTOCVT to ON because the WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition command scripts are tagged as ASCII-encoded and must be converted to the local code page before they can run. For more information, see Environment variables for WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition for z/OS.
Issuing commands from the IBM i platform
- You can start WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition commands using the Qshell interpreter. To start the Qshell interpreter, issue the STRQSH command from an IBM i system command line.
- When you run commands in the Qshell environment, command names are not case-sensitive: You can enter them in uppercase, lowercase, or a combination of uppercase and lowercase. However, arguments to control commands (such as queue names) and parameters (such as -m for queue manager name) are case-sensitive.