Planning your installation

Before you install IBM® MQ, you must choose which components to install and where to install them. You must also make some platform-specific choices.

Before you start installing, consider how you want to use IBM MQ and review the general planning section. See Planning.

Note that HP Integrity NonStop Server uses a different installer from the other UNIX platforms, and a multi-installation layout.

There are a number of choices you must make before you start installing:

When you have finished planning your installation, check your system requirements. See Checking requirements.