IBM MQ operating environment migration

You might need to perform some migration tasks for IBM® MQ as a result of upgrading the operating environment.

To find out what operating environment upgrades you must make before upgrading IBM MQ, compare the requirements for different releases. For more information about system requirements, see System Requirements for IBM MQ. By selecting the appropriate link on the web page, the SPCR tool enables you to go directly to the following information for the specific operating system, or systems, that your enterprise uses.
  • Supported operating systems
  • Prerequisites
  • System requirements
  • Optional supported software
For details about operating environment changes in the latest release that directly affect the migration to a new version of IBM MQ, see the following information:

Particular considerations apply when migrating an RDQM configuration, see Applying OS updates with RDQM and Migrating replicated data queue managers.

For information about what changed in an earlier release of the product, see the What's new and What's changed sections in IBM Documentation for that version of the product:

Some changes might affect IBM MQ migration indirectly. For example, the runtime linkage conventions for applications, or the way memory is allocated, might change.