I found that more and more people like Linux and this is a great things.
IBM Integration Bus for developers (free of charge !!!) is available for Linux distribution.
That's cool... however I find out that the installation may be always straightforward especially on the last Linux 64 bit distribution.
You will find in this small post what are the steps that I followed to install the package.
First I would recommend
to install each component separately:
- WebSphere MQ
- IBM Integration Bus
- IIB Explorer
Download the IBM Integration Bus for
developers package.
I have used the single package
download.
WebSphere MQ
Installation
Installing software on Ubuntu usually
entails using Synaptic or by using an apt-get command from the
terminal.
Unfortunately, there are still a number of packages out
there that are only distributed in RPM format.
Ubuntu is Debian based and therefore
uses
.deb packages to install. If you
want to install .rpm packages, you first
should convert them into .deb packages
with a conversion software such as alien.
Then you can use gdebi or dpkg
to install them.
Despite the large version number, alien
is still (and will probably always be) rather experimental software.
It has been used by many people for many years, but there are still
many bugs and limitations
IBM distribute MQ as a set of RPMs and with what I just said, I recommend
to use "rpm" and hence install the rpm package: ‘rpm’, ‘pax’
and ‘default-jre’ packages.
Detailed information can be found in the following technote:
In my installation I have made first
1. Install the i386 libraries
sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 sudo apt-get install libgcc1:i386 sudo apt-get update
2. Define the system configuration (provided here after)
3. Install the different rpm package as explaine at the previous link (for ubuntu 14.04 I had to use the --prefix /opt/mqm).
4. Define the WMQ configuration
System configuration
I would recommend to change the system configuration for Linux when using WebSphere MQ. I provide the information here after but detailed information can be found in the knowledge center ( Linux System requirements).create /etc/sysctl.d/50-webspheremq.conf with the following:
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 268435456
kernel.sem = 500 256000 250 1024
fs.file-max = 524288
Make these changes live by running
sudo sysctl -p
These information can be found in the knowledge center
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKSJ_7.5.0/com.ibm.mq.ins.doc/q008550_.htm
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKSJ_7.5.0/com.ibm.mq.ins.doc/q008550_.htm
Check that this has been correctly
updated
cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni
WMQ Configuration
You can use the setmqinst command to change the installation description of an installation, or to set or unset an installation as the primary installation.
Before executing the command, you would have to create the following directory “/usr/lib64”.
Create this directory with the following command:
sudo mkdir /usr/lib64
This command sets the installation with
an installation path of /opt/mqm as the primary installation:
sudo /opt/mqm/bin/setmqinst -i -p /opt/mqm
Add the user to the group mqm in order
to be administrator:
sudo addgroup $USER
mqm
IIBExplorer installation
Before doing any installation, you should first install the prereqs librairies (see corresponding chapter).
Install IBExplorer. Go to the folder
“/extractedfolder/messagebroker_ia_developer/IBExplorer”.
If the installer is not executable, you
would have to change using the following command:
chmod +x install.bin
launch the installation:
sudo ./install.bin
And start the IBM Integration Toolkit with the following command:
sudo strmqcfg -clean
IBM Integration Toolkit
Before doing any installation, you should first install the prereqs librairies (see corresponding chapter).
The installation is then straightforward, just launch the installToolkit.
sudo ./installToolkit.sh
IBM Integration Bus
The runtime is installed in a very straightforward way.Just go in the directory where the tar has been unzipped and launch the setup.
Intalling Eclipse prereqs
The installation manager, the IBM Integration Toolkit and IBM Integration Exporer requires to have 32bit libraries. I have found issues to run the installation without installing the "ia32-libs".In order to install this library I have used the following command:
sudo -i cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d echo "deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main restricted universe multiverse" >ia32-libs-raring.list apt-get update apt-get install ia32-libs rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ia32-libs-raring.list apt-get update exit sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
And the following libs:
apt-get install libc6-i386 apt-get install libgcc1:i386
