Associating the queue managers with IBM MQ 9.4

Use the Transfer queue managers wizard to associate the sampleQM queue manager with your installation of the later version of IBM® MQ.

Before you begin

Before starting this task, make sure that you have stopped the queue manager as described in Stopping the queue manager, otherwise you will not be able to complete the transfer.

About this task

The Transfer queue managers wizard feature of IBM MQ Explorer enables you to transfer one or more queue managers from other installations to the current installation. This wizard is equivalent to the setmqm command, but saves having to type the required paths and parameters. Only stopped queue managers can be transferred; running queue managers are shown for reference.

Once you have transferred and started a queue manager on an installation for a later version of the product, it is not possible to migrate back to an earlier version.

Procedure

Start IBM MQ Explorer.
Click Start > All Applications > IBM MQ > IBM MQ Explorer.
In the Navigator view, right-click the queue managers node and select Transfer Queue Managers.
Right-click then select the queue manager sampleQM, then click Transfer.
The setmqm command is invoked with the selected queue managers. If the transfer is successful, the navigator tree updates to include the transferred queue managers. If there are any problems, a dialog is shown with the error message from the command.
Start the queue manager sampleQM.
1. In the Navigator view, expand the queue managers node.
2. Right-click the name of the queue manager, then click Start.

Results

You have successfully associated the queue manager sampleQM with the later version of IBM MQ.

What to do next

Verify that the queue manager sampleQM has been successfully migrated by confirming that you can put a message to and get a message from the queue as described in Verifying the IBM MQ 9.4 installation.