Creating server-connection and client-connection definitions on different platforms
You can create each channel definition on the computer to which it applies. However, there are restrictions on how you can create channel definitions on a client computer.
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On all platforms, you can use IBM® MQ Script (MQSC) commands, programmable command format (PCF) commands, or the IBM MQ Explorer to define a server-connection channel on the server machine.
On z/OS® you can also use the Operation and Control panels.
On IBM i you can also use the panel interface.
Because MQSC commands are not available on a machine where IBM MQ has been installed as an IBM MQ MQI client only, you must use different ways of defining a client-connection channel on the client machine.
The following considerations apply when runmqsc:
- You can specify the -c parameter and, optionally, the -u parameter to connect runmqsc as a client to the queue manager you want to administer.
- If you use the -u parameter to supply a user ID, you are prompted for a matching password.
- If you have configured the
CONNAUTH AUTHINFO
record withCHCKLOCL(REQUIRED)
orCHCKLOCL(REQDADM)
, you must use the -u parameter otherwise you will not be able to administer your queue manager with runmqsc.