IBM BigFix is pleased to announce that Fix Packs for IBM MQ for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform are now supported in the Advanced Patching site.
You must subscribe to the Advanced Patching site. From the License Overview dashboard, under Lifecycle Management, subscribe to the site to access the content.
The Advanced Patching site now contains the following patching content for IBM MQ Server:
- Supported Product: IBM MQ
- IBM MQ Server versions: 7.5.0, 8.0.0
- Supported platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- MQ Server LinuxIA32 7.5.0.x: RHEL 6 x86_64
- MQ Server LinuxX64 7.5.0.x: RHEL 6 x86_64, RHEL 7 x86_64
- MQ Server LinuxX64 8.0.0.x: RHEL 6 x86_64, RHEL 7 x86_64
- Supported Product: IBM MQ
- Supported Patch Type: Latest RPM-based Fixpacks
- Supported downloading methods: Download plug-in feature and through NFS share.
Note that the following are applicable in the current version:
- Only MQ servers are supported.
- Only installation through the default path (/opt/mqm) is supported.
- Supports a single instance of MQ on each target.
- Does not support MQ Client or MQ Extension patching.
Actions to take:
To access IBM MQ content, you must subscribe to the Advanced Patching site, version 21 from the License Overview dashboard, under BigFix Management.
For IBM MQ Download Plug-in, subscribe to the Patching Support site, version 575 from the License Overview dashboard, under BigFix Management.
For more information about using the download plug-in and custom repository to patch Windows content for IBM MQ Server, go to: Download Red Hat content for IBM MQ.
Sites:
For IBM MQ content: Advanced Patching site, version 21
For IBM MQ Download Plug-in: Patching Support site, version 575
Application Engineering Team
IBM BigFix Patch