License requirements

You must have purchased sufficient licenses for your installation. The details of the license agreement is stored on your system at installation time so that we can read it at any time. IBM MQ supports IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT).

Important: Ensure that your enterprise has the correct license, or licenses, for the components that you are going to install. See IBM MQ license information for more details.

License files

At installation, the license agreement files are copied into the /licenses directory under the MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH. We can read them at any time.

On IBM i, we can use the WRKSFWAGR command to view the software licenses.

ILMT

ILMT automatically detects IBM MQ, if you are using it, and checks with it each time a queue manager is started. You do not need to take any further action. We can install ILMT before or after IBM MQ.

The automatic detection applies to both the IBM MQ server and IBM MQ Java products.