Building applications for IBM MQ MQI clients

Applications can be built and run in IBM MQ MQI client environment. The application must be built and linked to the IBM MQ MQI client used. The way in which applications are built and linked varies according to the platform and programming language used.

If an application is to run in a client environment, we can write it in the languages shown in the following table:

Client platform	C	C++	COBOL	pTAL	RPG	Visual Basic
AIX	Yes	Yes	Yes
HP Integrity NonStop Server	Yes		Yes	Yes
IBM i	Yes		Yes		Yes
Linux	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows	Yes	Yes	Yes			Yes

• Linking C applications with the IBM MQ MQI client code
  Having written the IBM MQ application that we want to run on the IBM MQ MQI client, we must link it to the IBM MQ MQI client code.
• Linking C++ applications with the IBM MQ MQI client code
  We can write applications to run on the client in C++. Build methods vary according to the environment.
• Linking COBOL applications with the IBM MQ MQI client code
  Having written a COBOL application that we want to run on the IBM MQ MQI client, we must link it with an appropriate library.
• Linking Visual Basic applications with the IBM MQ MQI client code
  We can link Microsoft Visual Basic applications with the IBM MQ MQI client code on Windows.

Parent topic: Writing client procedural applications