Windows: Applying maintenance level client updates

How to apply maintenance level updates to IBM® MQ for Windows clients.

About this task

You can apply maintenance to an IBM MQ client interactively or by using the msiexec command to perform a silent MSI upgrade.

Interactive client upgrade

On the client installation media, navigate to the \Windows\MSI\ directory, then run the Setup.exe file.

Silent client upgrade

As an alternative method for applying maintenance to IBM MQ client systems, you can use the command msiexec from the command line to perform a silent MSI upgrade.

To upgrade a computer with only a single installation, you can use a command similar to the following example:


msiexec /i "PATH\Windows\MSI\IBM WebSphere MQ.msi" /l*v <install_log_path>
/q TRANSFORMS="1033.mst" REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus

For a multi installation computer with multiple clients, you can upgrade a single client by using a command similar to the following example:


msiexec /i "PATH\Windows\MSI\IBM WebSphere MQ.msi" /l*v <install_log_path>
/q TRANSFORMS=":InstanceId2.mst;1033.mst" REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus

Results

When the maintenance completes you can query the maintenance level by running the dspmqver command. For more details, see Querying the maintenance level.