Displaying messages in your national language on UNIX and Linux® systems
To display messages from a different national language message catalog, you must install the appropriate catalog and set the LANG environment variable.
About this task
- Non-AIX® platforms
- Messages in U.S. English are automatically installed with IBM® MQ.
- AIX
- Messages in the language specified by the locale selected on your machine at install time are installed by default.
To find out which language is currently in use, run the locale command.
If this returns a language which is not one of the national languages provided by IBM MQ, you must select a national language, otherwise you will not get a message catalog installed on your system.
Message catalogs for all languages are installed in
, where language identifier is one of the identifiers in Table 1.
MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH
/msg/language identifier