Exporting and importing settings
You can export your settings from IBM® MQ Explorer for backup purposes, or to transfer and import the settings into another instance of IBM MQ Explorer.
About this task
You can export and import the following types of settings in IBM MQ Explorer:
- Column schemes that you have created
- Filters that you have created
- Connection details for remote queue managers
- Preferences that you have set in IBM MQ Explorer
- Queue manager set memberships, set definitions, and set filters
Exporting settings
About this task
To export your settings from your IBM MQ Explorer workspace:
Procedure
- To open the Export dialog, in the Navigator view, right-click IBM MQ, then click Export MQ Explorer settings.... Alternatively, you can open the Export dialog by clicking File > Export, then selecting MQ Explorer > MQ Explorer Settings from the dialog.
- Select the check boxes for the types of settings that you want to export.
- As the data is written to the file system, enter the file name and location for the compressed file that will be created to store the exported settings.
- Click OK.
Results
For information about exporting queue manager sets, see: Importing and exporting queue manager sets.
Importing settings
About this task
To import settings to IBM MQ Explorer:
Procedure
- In the Navigator view, right-click IBM MQ, then click Import MQ Explorer settings... The Import dialog opens.
- Browse for the compressed file that contains the settings.
- Select the types of settings that you want to import into IBM MQ Explorer. If the compressed file does not contain settings of a certain type, the check box associated with that type is unavailable.
- Click OK.
Results
For information about importing queue manager sets, see: Importing and exporting queue manager sets.