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Error AMQ7077E in Windows when trying to create, start or end an IBM MQ queue manager - Launch MQ Explorer

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Question

You login to your Windows machine as a user that belongs to the Administrator group and you want to perform some IBM MQ Administration tasks. 
You open a command prompt for Windows or you start a session with the MQ Explorer, then you try to start or stop a queue manager and you get the following error message: 
AMQ7077E: You are not authorized to perform the requested operation.
You see also the following error in the general MQ error log.
Location: C:\ProgramData\IBM\MQ\errors
AMQ8063E: Not authorized to issue command 'strmqm'.
 

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28 April 2025

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