Planning to install IBM MQ on Windows

Before you install IBM® MQ on Windows, you must choose which components to install and where to install them. You must also make some platform-specific choices.

About this task

The following steps provide links to additional information to help you with planning your installation of IBM MQ on Windows.

As part of your planning activities, make sure that you review the information on hardware and software requirements for the platform on which you are planning to install IBM MQ. For more information, see Checking requirements on Windows.

Procedure

Decide which IBM MQ components and features to install.
See IBM MQ components and features and Where to find downloadable installation images.
Important: Ensure that your enterprise has the correct license, or licenses, for the components that you are going to install. For more information, see License requirements and IBM MQ license information.
Review the options for naming your installation.
In some cases, you can choose an installation name to use instead of the default name. See Installation name on UNIX, Linux, and Windows.
Review the options and restrictions for choosing an installation location for IBM MQ.
For more information, see Installation location on Multiplatforms.
If you plan to install multiple copies of IBM MQ, see Multiple installations on UNIX, Linux, and Windows.
If you already have a primary installation, or plan to have one, see Primary installation on UNIX, Linux, and Windows.
Make sure that the communications protocol needed for server-to-server verification is installed and configured on both systems that you plan to use.
For more information, see Server-to-server links on UNIX, Linux, and Windows.