Authority to use MFT commands

Your user ID must be a member of the mqm group if you want to issue Managed File Transfer commands, unless you have already configured IBM® MQ to allow users who are not in the mqm group to issue commands.

[z/OS] For more information about defining an alternative group to mqm on z/OS®, see Sources from which you can issue MQSC and PCF commands on IBM MQ for z/OS.

For more information about authorization, see Authority to administer IBM MQ. [IBM i] If you are using IBM i, start with the following topic: IBM MQ authorities.

A subset of the Managed File Transfer commands can be issued using the IBM MQ Explorer.

Issuing commands from AIX, Linux, and Windows systems

Note the following environment-specific information for issuing commands:

Managed File Transfer for Windows: All commands can be issued from a command line. Command names are not case-sensitive: You can enter them in uppercase, lowercase, or a combination of uppercase and lowercase. However, arguments to control commands (such as queue names) and parameters (such as -m for queue manager name) are case-sensitive.; In the syntax descriptions, the hyphen (-) is used as a flag indicator.
Managed File Transfer for AIX® and Linux® systems: All Managed File Transfer commands can be issued from a shell. All commands are case-sensitive.

Issuing commands from z/OS systems

From IBM MQ for z/OS 9.2, Managed File Transfer is installed in to the mqft directory of the z/OS UNIX System Services (z/OS UNIX) Components; for example: /mqm/V9R2M0/mqft.

The Managed File Transfer commands are in the bin directory underneath the mqft directory; for example: /mqm/V9R2M0/mqft/bin.

Important: This is different from earlier releases, where the bin and mqft directories were peers of each other.

The commands can be run from either of the following options:

Directly from the z/OS UNIX environment by specifying the path to the command or including the bin subdirectory in the user command path.
From a PDSE data set of commands configured from the PDSE command template library, for a particular agent or logger. For more information, see Creating an MFT Agent or Logger command data set.

Issuing commands from the IBM i platform

Note the following environment-specific information for issuing commands on IBM i:

You can start Managed File Transfer commands using the Qshell interpreter. To start the Qshell interpreter, issue the STRQSH command from an IBM i system command line.
When you run commands in the Qshell environment, command names are not case-sensitive: You can enter them in uppercase, lowercase, or a combination of uppercase and lowercase. However, arguments to control commands (such as queue names) and parameters (such as -m for queue manager name) are case-sensitive.