Obtaining the MQ Service Provider
The MQ Service Provider is supported for use against IBM® MQ for z/OS® 8.0 and later. There are two ways to obtain the MQ Service Provider for use with any supported version of IBM MQ.
Obtaining the MQ Service Provider from the Unix Systems Services Components feature of IBM MQ 9.0.1 (or later)
Install the feature following the instructions in the program directory. The MQ Service Provider will be located in the PATHPREFIX/zosconnect directory on your file system, where PATHPREFIX is the value chosen at installation time. By default, for IBM MQ 9.0.1, PATHPREFIX is /usr/lpp/mqm/V9R0M1.
Obtaining the MQ Service Provider from Fix Central
Go to Fix Central and locate the MQ Service Provider by searching for IBM-MQ-zOSConnect-ServiceProvider.
Once downloaded, transfer the tar file into a directory PATHPREFIX on an appropriate z/OS LPAR. This directory should be somewhere that is accessible to z/OS Connect.
tar -oxvf 9.0.1-IBM-MQ-zOSConnect-ServiceProvider.tar
Change the permissions of the directory structure as appropriate for your enterprise.
Directory structure
Both ways of obtaining the MQ Service Provider create the same directory structure. The root directory of this structure is referred to as MQSP_ROOT throughout this documentation, where MQSP_ROOT is PATHPREFIX/zosconnect.
mqzosconnect.properties Properties file that can be copied into z/OS Connect
v1.0/ Directory containing MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect V1
lib/
com.ibm.mq.zosconnect_1.0.0.jar Feature jar file for MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect V1
features/
zosConnectMQ-1.0.mf Feature manifest for MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect V1
v2.0/ Directory containing MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect EE
lib/
com.ibm.mq.zosconnect_2.0.0.jar Feature jar file for MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect EE
features/
zosConnectMQ-2.0.mf Feature manifest for MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect EE