Hardware and software requirements on AIX systems

Before you install IBM® MQ, check that your system meets the hardware and operating system software requirements for the particular components you intend to install.

For hardware and software requirements, see System Requirements for IBM MQ.

IBM MQ does not support host names that contain spaces. If you install IBM MQ on a system with a host name that contains spaces, you are unable to create any queue managers.

32-bit client support

Attention: From IBM MQ 9.0.0, there is no separate 32-bit client installation package. The client installation package and redistributable client contain both 32-bit and 64-bit IBM MQ client libraries. The included 32-bit libraries can be used by 32-bit applications on supported platforms where 32-bit support is offered by the operating system.

Java Message Service and SOAP transport

If you want to use Java Message Service and SOAP support, you need a Java 7 SDK and Runtime Environment from IBM at version 7.0 or later.

[V9.0.0.0 Jun 2016] Java 8 is bundled with IBM MQ 9.0 but client components are built with Java 7 compatibility flags on.

For development, a JDK is required, and a JRE is required for running. The JRE does not need to be the JRE installed with IBM MQ, but has to be one from the supported list.

For a list of supported JDKs, see System Requirements for IBM MQ.

For further information about SOAP with IBM MQ, see IBM MQ transport for SOAP.

You can check the version installed using the following command:

java -version

Transport Layer Security (TLS)

If you want to use the TLS support, you need the IBM Global Security Kit (GSKit) version 8 package. This package is supplied with IBM MQ as one of the components available for installation.

Unicode support on AIX

If you need to convert data to and from Unicode on your system, you must install the following file sets:

bos.iconv.ucs.com   Unicode converters for AIX sets
bos.iconv.ucs.ebcdic Unicode converters for EBCDIC sets
bos.iconv.ucs.pc   Unicode converters for PC sets