Chapter 2 Setting Up and Running the Application
Setting Up and Running the Application
The following section provides instructions on installing and running the MQ Visual Edit application:
- Install the software components mentioned in the Prerequisites / Software section. Refer to the
documentation or instructions associated with these components for further details on the
installation. Take note of the directory where the MQ base Java code is installed and the
directory where the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) executable is located.
Windows Users Only with the embedded JRE:
- MQ Visual Edit can be installed with an embedded JRE (Sun Java v6.0) by running the install program called: mqve-setup-withjre.exe
- The installer follows the standard Windows install procedures and provides defualt values for the user.
- When the install program has completed execution, there will be a newly created folder under Start ->
Program Files called MQ Visual Edit.
- To run MQ Visual Edit, select the MQ Visual Edit icon from within the MQ Visual Edit folder.
Windows Users Only:
- MQ Visual Edit can be installed by running the install program called: mqve-setup.exe
- The installer follows the standard Windows install procedures and provides default values for the user.
- When the install program has completed execution, there will be a newly created folder under Start ->
Program Files called MQ Visual Edit.
- To run MQ Visual Edit, select the MQ Visual Edit icon from within the MQ Visual Edit folder.
Unix, Linux and Max OS X:
Or any Windows users would do not want to run the installer program.
- MQ Visual Edit is provided as a zip file: mqve.zip
- To unzip the file, open a shell prompt and execute the following commands:
- When the unzip command has finished, there should be a directory tree as follows: Capitalware/MQVE
- Change directory to Capitalware/MQVE
- Before running MQ Visual Edit for the first, you need to add the execute attribute to the mqve.sh shell scripts. Do the following:
- To run MQ Visual Edit from the Capitalware/MQVE directory, for AIX, HP-UX, Linux Mac OS X, and Solaris type the following:
OS/2 or any Windows users would do not want to run the installer program:
cd Capitalware\MQVE
mqve.bat
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