Applying and removing maintenance on UNIX and Linux

Maintenance tasks associated with UNIX and Linux platforms are grouped in this section.

• Applying maintenance level updates on AIX
  You apply maintenance level updates to IBM MQ for AIX by using installp.
• Reverting to the previous maintenance level on AIX
  We can revert to a previous maintenance level by using the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT).
• Applying maintenance level updates on Linux using RPM
  We can apply maintenance level updates to IBM MQ on Linux by using RPM. The same procedure applies to all Linux platforms, including Ubuntu.
• Applying maintenance level updates on Linux Ubuntu using Debian packages
  Follow these instructions to apply a fix pack, for example IBM MQ Version 9.1.0, Fix Pack 1, to IBM MQ on Linux using Debian packages.
• Reverting to the previous maintenance level on Linux
  We can remove updates and revert to the previous maintenance level of IBM MQ by using RPM. The same procedure applies to all Linux platforms, including Ubuntu.
• Staging maintenance fixes on UNIX and Linux
  On UNIX and Linux, we can use multiple installations of IBM MQ on the same server to control the release of maintenance fixes.
• Applying maintenance level updates to multi-instance queue managers on UNIX and Linux
  On UNIX and Linux, we can use multi-instance queue managers to reduce the outage caused by applying maintenance updates.

Parent topic: Applying maintenance to IBM MQ

Related tasks

• Querying the maintenance level