Configuring IBM MQ

Create one or more queue managers on one or more computers, and configure them on your development, test, and production systems to process messages that contain your business data.

Before you configure IBM® MQ, read about the IBM MQ concepts in IBM MQ Technical overview. Read about how to plan your IBM MQ environment in Planning.

There are a number of different methods that you can use to create, configure, and administer your queue managers and their related resources in IBM MQ. These methods include command line interfaces, a graphical user interface, and an administration API. For more information about these interfaces, see Administering IBM MQ.

For instructions on how to create, start, stop, and delete a queue manager, see Creating and managing queue managers on Multiplatforms.

For information about how to create the components required to connect your IBM MQ installations and applications together, see Configuring distributed queuing.

For instructions on how to connect your clients to an IBM MQ server by using different methods, see Configuring connections between the client and server.

For instructions on how to configure a queue manager cluster, see Configuring a queue manager cluster.

You can change the behavior of IBM MQ or a queue manager by changing configuration information. For more information, see Changing IBM MQ configuration information in .ini files on Multiplatforms. In general, you do not need to restart a queue manager for any configuration changes to take effect, except for when stated in this product documentation.

For instructions on how to configure IBM MQ for z/OS®, see Configuring queue managers on z/OS.