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How to install IBM WebSphere MQ on Ubuntu (Linux)

Following are the steps to install IBM WebSphere MQ version 8 on Ubuntu 14.04.

1) Create a user account with name "mqm" in Ubuntu. This should basically create a user called "mqm" and usergroup called "mqm"

2) Login to "mqm" user account and proceed with next steps

3) Increase the open file limit for the user "mqm" to "10240" or higher value. For this open "/etc/security/limits.conf" file and set the values as bellow.

 mqm       hard  nofile     10240
mqm       soft   nofile     10240

4) Increase the number of processes allowed for the user "mqm" to "4096" or higher value. For this open "/etc/security/limits.conf" file and set the values as bellow. You will need to edit this file as a sudo user.

mqm       hard  nproc      4096
mqm       soft   nproc      4096


5) Install "RPM" on Ubuntu if you already don't have it.

sudo apt-get install rpm  

6) Download the IBM MQ (you will get a file like WSMQ_8.0.0.4_TRIAL_LNX_ON_X86_64_.tar.gz)

7) Unzip above downloaded file. Following command will unzip the file and create a folder called "MQServer" in same location.
tar -xzvf WSMQ_8.0.0.4_TRIAL_LNX_ON_X86_64_.tar.gz

8) Go to "MQServer" folder and run following command to accept the licence

sudo ./mqlicense.sh -text_only

9) Then run following command to create unique set of packages in system (Please note that you can replace "mqmtest" part with any alphanumeric suffix if needed)

sudo ./crtmqpkg mqmtest

You will get following output once successfully run the above step in commandline.

mqm@mqm-esb:~/Downloads/MQServer$ sudo ./crtmqpkg mqmtest
Repackaging WebSphere MQ for "x86_64" using suffix "mqmtest"
###############################################################
Repackaging complete  - rpms are at "/var/tmp/mq_rpms/mqmtest/x86_64"

10) Now go to "/var/tmp/mq_rpms/mqmtest/x86_64" folder and run following command to install all components to default location "/opt/mqm/"

sudo  rpm -ivh --force-debian --ignorearch MQSeries*.rpm

11) Once above step runs successfully you have installed the WebSphere MQ and you can start to using it. You can use MQ Explorer to administrate local and remote Queue Managers  and therir resources. Go to "/opt/mqm/bin" directory and run following command to open MQExplorer.

 ./MQExplorer 


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  1. UnknownJune 2, 2017 at 4:09 AM

    I am unable to edit limits.conf file with mqm user

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