Multiple installations of WebSphere MQ Explorer

An installation of MQ Explorer can be included with each installation of WebSphere® MQ on your system. Each installation of MQ Explorer is part of a separate installation of WebSphere MQ, and uses its own workspace.

If your system has multiple installations of MQ Explorer, the only local queue managers shown on an installation of MQ Explorer are those local queue managers associated with that installation.

Copying settings between installations of MQ Explorer

MQ Explorer stores settings in a workspace; this workspace, identified by the name of the installation of WebSphere MQ associated with it, is located in your home directory inIBM/WebSphereMQ/workspace-Installation1. In this example, the name of the workspace associated with the workspace is Installation1.

At startup, MQ Explorer detects whether any workspaces from previous installations of IBM® WebSphere MQ are present on your system. If a workspace from an installation of IBM WebSphere MQ earlier than version 7.1 is detected, without an associated WebSphere MQ installation present, settings are automatically copied.

If there is at least one workspace available from earlier installations of WebSphere MQ and MQ Explorer, you can choose whether to copy settings from one of these, or to start with a new workspace. At startup, a dialog presents you with a list of these available workspaces, each of which is identified by the name of the WebSphere MQ installation associated with it.

If you choose to copy settings from an earlier workspace, the settings copied are those used by version 7.1 of MQ Explorer only:
  • MQ Explorer Preferences
  • MQ Explorer Test Configurations
  • Remote Queue Manager connections
  • Queue Manager sets
  • Schemes and Filters
  • JMS Admin objects
  • Service Definition repositories
  • IBM WebSphere Message Broker data (if applicable)
  • IBM IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition data (if applicable)
  • SupportPac MS0P (if applicable)
These settings are not copied from the workspace:
  • Any preferences unrelated to MQ Explorer, WebSphere Message Broker, or IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition.
  • Any projects unrelated to Service Definition repositories.
  • MQ Explorer Test Results.
  • Any other Eclipse settings, including views and perspective changes.
  • Any other SupportPacs or extensions to MQ Explorer; these add-ons must be reinstalled if you want to use them with your new workspace.