IBM WebSphere MQ introduces new features and functions with every release, and therefore troubleshooting installation and operational issues can be a challenge. This article shows you how to address WebSphere MQ installation issues, provides OS-specific commands to obtain diagnostic information on them, and describes workarounds when appropriate.  

Introduction
IBM® WebSphere® MQ is a middleware product that enables independent and potentially non-concurrent applications on distributed systems to communicate with each other using messages. The product provides assured one-time delivery of messages across a wide variety of platforms, emphasizing reliability and high throughput of message traffic, and ensuring that no messages are lost. WebSphere MQ is available on a variety of platforms, and this article provides hints and tips for a number of different platforms.

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