Apply maintenance level client updates on Windows

We can apply maintenance level updates to IBM MQ for Windows clients either interactively or by performing a silent MSI update.

About this task

We can apply maintenance to an IBM MQ client interactively or by using the msiexec command to perform a silent MSI update.

Interactive client update

On the client installation media, navigate to the \Windows\MSI\ directory, then run the Setup.exe file.

Silent client update

As an alternative method for applying maintenance to IBM MQ client systems, we can use the command msiexec from the command line to perform a silent MSI update.

To update a computer with only a single installation, we can use a command similar to the following example:

msiexec /i "PATH\Windows\MSI\IBM MQ.msi" /l*v install_log_path
/q TRANSFORMS="1033.mst" REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus

For a multi installation computer with multiple clients, we can update a single client by using a command similar to the following example:

msiexec /i "PATH\Windows\MSI\IBM MQ.msi" /l*v install_log_path
/q TRANSFORMS=":InstanceId2.mst;1033.mst" REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus

Results

When the maintenance completes we can query the maintenance level by running the dspmqver command. For more details, see Querying the maintenance level.