Use transforms with msiexec for client installation

MSI can use transforms to modify an installation. During IBM MQ installation, transforms can be used to support different national languages.

About this task

IBM MQ is supplied with transform files in the \MSI folder of the client image. These files are also embedded in the IBM MQ Windows installer package, IBM MQ.msi.

Table 1 shows the locale identifier, language, and the transform file name to use in the msiexec command line.

Language	Transform File name	Value
U.S. English	1033.mst	1033
German	1031.mst	1031
French	1036.mst	1036
Spanish	1034.mst	1034
Italian	1040.mst	1040
Brazilian Portuguese	1046.mst	1046
Japanese	1041.mst	1041
Korean	1042.mst	1042
Simplified Chinese	2052.mst	2052
Traditional Chinese	1028.mst	1028
Czech	1029.mst	1029
Russian	1049.mst	1049
Hungarian	1038.mst	1038
Polish	1045.mst	1045

We can also specify the required language by using the MQLANGUAGE property with the MQParms command. For information about the msiexec property=value parameters, see MQParms parameter file - client installation.

Procedure

On the msiexec command line, we can specify the required language by using the TRANSFORMS property in a property=value pair as shown in the following example:

TRANSFORMS="1033.mst"

The quotation marks surrounding the value are optional.We can also specify the full path and file name of the transform file. Again, the quotation marks surrounding the value are optional. For example:

TRANSFORMS="D:\Msi\1033.mst"

Table 1 shows the locale identifier, language, and the transform file name to use in the msiexec command line. We might need to merge transforms to install multiple installations of the same version, for example:

TRANSFORMS=":InstanceId2.mst;D:\Msi\1033.mst"

Parent topic: Installing a client using msiexec