Use the Welcome to IBM MQ Explorer Content view page

The Welcome to IBM MQ Explorer Content view page points you to any relevant applications, documentation, tutorials, and education. This page is displayed the first time you launch IBM MQ Explorer.

We can use the items in the Welcome to IBM MQ Explorer Content view page to explore the facilities in IBM MQ. This page is launched the first time the IBM MQ Explorer is launched. The Welcome page can be viewed at any time from the IBM MQ Explorer by clicking IBM MQ in the Navigator view. There are links to the following subjects from this page:

Create the Default Configuration

Allows you to add a configured queue manager to this system for connecting easily with other queue managers in the same IBM MQ cluster. We can also use it to alter or display details of an existing queue manager created by the default configuration. This feature is available only using TCP/IP.

Note: If you migrated existing queue managers, or if we have created any queue managers after you installed IBM MQ, you might not want to use this facility. This is because we can only set up a default configuration if there are no queue managers already, and you might not want to delete your existing queue managers.

Launch Postcard

Allows you to try out IBM MQ messaging quickly and easily. We can send a message either to your own machine or to another named user's machine. It is described in detail in Verifying a server-to-server installation using the Postcard application on Windows.