Administration using the MQ Explorer

The MQ Explorer allows you to perform local or remote administration of your network from a computer running Windows, or Linux® x86-64 only.

IBM® MQ for Windows and IBM MQ for Linux x86-64 provide an administration interface called the MQ Explorer to perform administration tasks as an alternative to using control or MQSC commands. Comparing command sets shows you what you can do using the MQ Explorer.

The MQ Explorer allows you to perform local or remote administration of your network from a computer running Windows, or Linux x86-64, by pointing the MQ Explorer at the queue managers and clusters you are interested in. The platforms and levels of IBM MQ that can be administered using the MQ Explorer are described in Remote queue managers.

To configure remote IBM MQ queue managers so that MQ Explorer can administer them, see Prerequisite software and definitions.

It allows you to perform tasks, typically associated with setting up and fine-tuning the working environment for IBM MQ, either locally or remotely within a Windows or Linux x86-64 system domain.

On Linux, the MQ Explorer might fail to start if you have more than one Eclipse installation. If this happens, start the MQ Explorer using a different user ID to the one you use for the other Eclipse installation.

On Linux, to start the MQ Explorer successfully, you must be able to write a file to your home directory, and the home directory must exist.