Customizing the user interfaces

You can customize certain features of the CLI or web UI on your IBM® MQ Appliance.

You can customize the following aspects of the user interfaces:
  • The CLI prompt. For example, you could include an identifier for the appliance.
  • Pre-login, post-login, and system messages for the CLI.
  • Pre-login, post-login, and system messages for the web UI.

You customize the user interfaces using an XML file. You create the file that defines your customizations and then copy it to the appliance.

You can use any text editor to create the XML file. You must cut and paste the markup, and then specify the content of each customized message within the markup.

After the XML file is complete, you can, if you want, validate the conformance of the file against its schema. The schema is available on the appliance under store:///schemas/dp-user-interface.xsd.

Copy the file to the appliance store URI, and use the custom-ui-file command to implement your customizations, for example:
mqa# config
mqa (config)# system
mqa (config system)# custom-ui-file store:///CustomUI.xml