Upgrading an IBM MQ server installation using msiexec
How you upgrade an IBM MQ server installation on Windows to a newer version, release, or modification, using msiexec.
Before starting
Ensure that we have:
- Stopped all the IBM MQ applications
- Shut down your listeners
- Stopped all your queue managers
- Backed up your data
Important: To apply maintenance instead, for example, from Version 9.2.0 to Version 9.2.0, Fix Pack 1, see Applying and removing maintenance on Windows.
Procedure
- Access the IBM MQ installation image.
The location might be the mount point of the server DVD, a network location, or a local file system directory. See Where to find downloadable installation images.
- Locate IBM MQ.msi in the MSI directory of the IBM MQ installation image.
- From a DVD, this location might be E:\MSI\IBM MQ.msi
- From a network location, this location might be m:\instmqs\MSI\IBM MQ.msi
- From a local file system directory, this location might be C:\instmqs\MSI\IBM MQ.msi
- Optional: If we are upgrading the only IBM MQ server installation, where the installation has the default value Installation1 issue the following command:
msiexec /i "InstallationImage\MSI\IBM MQ.msi" /q AGREETOLICENSE=YES INSTALLATIONNAME="Installation1"- Optional: If we are upgrading an installation on a machine that already has one or more IBM MQ server installations of the level we are upgrading to, we must provide additional parameters to select a free MSI instance ID. See Choose MSI Instance IDs for multiple server installations for more information.In this case, the command might look something like this:
msiexec /i "InstallationImage\MSI\IBM MQ.msi" /q AGREETOLICENSE=YES INSTALLATIONNAME="Installation2" NEWINSTANCE=1 TRANSFORMS=":InstanceId2.mst;1033.mst"Parent topic: Upgrading an IBM MQ installation on Windows
Related tasks
- Upgrading an IBM MQ server installation using the Launchpad
- Upgrading an IBM MQ client installation using the GUI installer
- Upgrading an IBM MQ client installation using msiexec