Set up the libraries

Follow these steps to set up the WebSphere MQ operations and control panels:

  1. Ensure that all the libraries contained in your concatenations are either in the same format (F, FB, V, VB) and have the same block size, or are in order of decreasing block sizes. Otherwise, you might have problems trying to use these panels.

  2. Include the library thlqual.SCSQEXEC in your SYSEXEC or SYSPROC concatenation or activate it using the TSO ALTLIB command. This library, which is allocated with a fixed-block 80 record format during installation, contains the required EXECs.

    It is preferable to put the library into your SYSEXEC concatenation. However, if you want to put it in SYSPROC, the library must have a record length of 80 bytes.

  3. Add thlqual.SCSQAUTH to the TSO logon procedure STEPLIB or activate it using the TSO TSOLIB command, if it is not in the link list or the LPA.

  4. We can either add the WebSphere MQ panel libraries permanently to your ISPF library setup, or allow them to be set up dynamically when the panels are used. For the former choice, we need to do the following:

    1. Include the library containing the operations and control panel definitions in your ISPPLIB concatenation. The name is thlqual.SCSQPNLx, where x is the language letter for your national language.

    2. Include the library containing the required tables in your ISPTLIB concatenation. The name is thlqual.SCSQTBLx, where x is the language letter for your national language.

    3. Include the library containing the required messages in your ISPMLIB concatenation. The name is thlqual.SCSQMSGx, where x is the language letter for your national language.

    4. Include the library containing the required load modules in your ISPLLIB concatenation. The name of this library is thlqual.SCSQAUTH.

  5. Test that we can access the WebSphere MQ panels from the TSO Command Processor panel. This is usually option 6 on the ISPF/PDF Primary Options Menu. The name of the EXEC that you run is CSQOREXX. There are no parameters to specify if you have put the WebSphere MQ libraries permanently in your ISPF setup as in step 4. If you have not, use the following:

    CSQOREXX thlqual langletter

    where

    langletter is a letter identifying the national language to be used:

    C

    Simplified Chinese

    E

    U.S. English (mixed case)

    K

    Japanese

    U

    U.S. English (uppercase)