Publications supplied with the product

The WebSphere® MQ documentation is supplied separately on a CD-ROM alongside the product. You can either view the documents directly from CD, or you can install them on your computer (either before or after installing the WebSphere MQ product).

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Installing and running the WebSphere MQ Information Center on Linux

Documentation for WebSphere MQ Version 6.0 is supplied as an Information Center based on the Eclipse framework. You can install the Information Center on any Linux (x86 platform) system supported by the WebSphere MQ V.6.0 product.

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Prerequisite software

To use the Information Center you must have Mozilla 1.7 or later or a compatible web browser installed on your system.

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Installing the Information Center

The WebSphere MQ Information Center is supplied as two rpm packages on the Documentation CD for Linux. To install the Information Center:
  1. Ensure you are logged in to the system as the root user.
  2. Change to the directory containing the rpm files (the root directory of the CD or the directory to which they have been downloaded).
  3. Issue the command:
    rpm -ivh MQSeriesHelpSys-6.0.0-0.i386.rpm  MQSeriesInfoCen-6.0.0-0.i386.rpm
    To uninstall the Information Center, issue the command:
    rpm -e  MQSeriesHelpSys MQSeriesInfoCen
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Starting the Information Center

To start the Information Center, issue the command strmqinf This command starts the Information Center server in the background and opens a Web browser window at the Information Center welcome page.

Configuration information is stored in a directory .mqhelpdata in the user's home directory.

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Ending the Information Center

To stop the Information Center background process, issue the command: endmqinf

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PDF

A PDF (Portable Document Format), corresponding to each hardcopy book, is available on the documentation CD-ROM. You can read PDFs using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Additionally, you can download them to your own file system, or print them.

The PDFs are available in U.S. English in the en_US directory, and also in some or all of the following national languages. To find out which ones are available in your language, look for the appropriate directory on the CD-ROM. The PDFs are in a subdirectory called ll_LL, where ll_LL is one of the following:
  • de_DE (German)
  • es_ES (Spanish)
  • fr_FR (French)
  • it_IT (Italian)
  • ja_JP (Japanese)
  • ko_KR (Korean)
  • pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • zh_CN (Simplified Chinese)
  • zh_TW (Traditional Chinese)

Within these directories, you can find the complete set of PDFs that are available. Hardcopy books shows the file names used for the PDF files.

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Infopops in the WebSphere MQ Explorer (Linux x86 and Windows only)

Infopops are provided in the WebSphere MQ Explorer for Linux and Windows. They provide context-sensitive help from any part of the GUI. On Windows, you can:
  • click a folder
  • click a properties page
  • click a view
  • highlight a menu item
then press Crtl+F1. A small yellow box appears and displays some help information that typically contains one or more links to more detailed information.
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