License requirements
We must have purchased sufficient licenses for the installation. The details of the license agreement is stored on the 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 we 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.
If we have installed a trial license, follow the instructions for converting a trial license on the platform, or platforms, your enterprise uses.
On IBM i, we can use the WRKSFWAGR command to view the software licenses.
ILMT
ILMT automatically detects IBM MQ, if we 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.
Parent topic: IBM MQ installation overview
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- Hardware and software requirements on Linux systems
- Hardware and software requirements on IBM i systems
- Hardware and software requirements on Windows systems
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