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How to autostart an IBM MQ queue manager and MQ Web Server in Linux on reboot

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Question

To provide a very simple set of scripts to automatically start a single queue manager and/or MQ Web Server upon rebooting a Linux server, using systemd (which was introduced in RHEL 8 and available in RHEL 9).
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The related scenario of stopping the queue manager and/or MQ Web Server when the Linux server is gracefully shutdown, is also covered.

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Modified date:
28 April 2025

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