Upgrading an IBM MQ client installation using msiexec

How you upgrade an IBM MQ client installation on Windows to a newer version, release, or modification, using msiexec.

Before starting

Ensure that we have:

1. Stopped all the IBM MQ applications
2. Shut down your listeners
3. Stopped all your queue managers
4. Backed up your data

Procedure

1. Access the IBM MQ installation image.

   See Where to find downloadable installation images.

2. Locate IBM MQ.msi in the Windows\MSI directory of the IBM MQ installation image.
3. Optional: If we are upgrading the only IBM MQ client 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"

4. Optional: If we are upgrading an installation on a machine that already has one or more IBM MQ client 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 client 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

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