How to setup X Window for AIX for installation of WebSphere products with an user interface:
Step 1: Download XMing:
http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
Step 2: Install XMing and start the XMing Launch:
Step 3: Select Xming to start Xming process
Step 4: Open SSH and export display (first execute the “who” command to see where to export the display):
> export DISPLAY=thysm.ibm.intranet.com:0
Step 5: Run your .sh install and wait for the interface to open.
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Install Websphere Message Broker V7 on AIX:
FTP all the relevant files to your AIX machine, this software includes:
1. Websphere MQ for AIX
2. Websphere Message Broker for AIX
Websphere MQ must first be installed before attempting to install WMB as WMB requires lib files from MQ.
Step 1: Open a command window and extract Websphere MQ, next run: sudo smitty
Step 2: Define the file path location of MQ for AIX: /installs/WebsphereMQ
Step 3: Define the “ALL” software needs to be installed and change the license agreement to “YES”
Step 4: Successful install of Websphere MQ
Install Webphere Message Broker:
Step 1: Open command line and navigate to the messagebroker1_runtime folder
Step 2: Run the following commnad: sudo ./setupaix -console
Step 3: Go through the Broker Wizard and confirm that Broker was installed successfully.
After installation navigate to: /opt/mqsi/7.0/bin
Run the following command: sudo ./ mqsicreatebroker WBRK_DEV -q WMQ_DEV
Confirm that broker has been created successfully.
Confirm that you MQ QueueManager listerner was created and started, if it was not started use the following command:
runmqlsr -t tcp -p 1414 -m WMQ_DEV
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Run the following command to start the broker: sudo ./mqsistart WBRK_DEV
Run the following command to see if broker and QM has started: sudo ./mqsilist
If all this has been done, add a remote broker definition to your Websphere Message Broker Toolkit and also a Remote Queue Manager to your Websphere MQ or Broker Explorer.
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