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| deviki1024 |
 Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:27 am Post subject: Reverting to earlier version of MQ Fixpack |
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Hi,
I have MQ 6.0.2.3 Version installed in my windows Machine. I need to apply the latest fixpack 6.0.2.8 .
Now after installing the latest pack if I need to roll back to the Previous version ( 6.0.2.3) how can I revert back ?
I would be thankful for a reply 
Thanks in Advace.
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Environment : Windows 2000 Server ; Base MQ Version : 6.0 ; |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 7:14 am Post subject: Re: Reverting to earlier version of MQ Fixpack |
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| deviki1024 wrote: |
Now after installing the latest pack if I need to roll back to the Previous version ( 6.0.2.3) how can I revert back ?
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Uninstall v6.0.2.8
Reinstall v6.0.2.3
Create queue manager from the backup you made prior to installing the fix pack.
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| deviki1024 |
| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Many thanks for your reply.
I need to do like :-
After deleting the 6.0.2.8 it should appear to the previous version 6.0.2.3 with out reinstalling the old version again.
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| Gaya3 |
| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:06 am Post subject: |
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Bill gates Windows wont allow this i suppose.... 
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Gaya3 wrote: |
| Bill gates Windows wont allow this i suppose.... |
Then why does the Windows MQ installer create a shortcut in the Programs menu called "Remove Fix Pack xxxx" each time you install a fix pack on Windows? |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| mqjeff wrote: |
| Gaya3 wrote: |
| Bill gates Windows wont allow this i suppose.... |
Then why does the Windows MQ installer create a shortcut in the Programs menu called "Remove Fix Pack xxxx" each time you install a fix pack on Windows? |
It's a bluff. Using that tends to remove bits of the base product as well.
In theory you can roll Windows and any Windows application to a previous point by using an uninstaller to revert back to the saved versions of the old files or System Restore. In practice your installation turns to cream cheese and you end up rebuilding.
Another quality Windoze feature 
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:38 am Post subject: |
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| deviki1024 wrote: |
| Please suggest |
I already have.
You can (as my worthy associate points out) try the "remove fixpack" icon or removing the fix pack via the Control Panel.
I don't suggest that, nor do I recommend it, but if you want to go for it feel free. You might be lucky.
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Vitor wrote: |
| deviki1024 wrote: |
| Please suggest |
I already have.
You can (as my worthy associate points out) try the "remove fixpack" icon or removing the fix pack via the Control Panel.
I don't suggest that, nor do I recommend it, but if you want to go for it feel free. You might be lucky. |
I thought the only way to remove a fixpack was through rad updater... or not at all.... 
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
| I thought the only way to remove a fixpack was through rad updater... or not at all.... |
That's true of broker.
Apparently none of the moderators have moved this *MQ* question out of the *Broker* forum.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| mqjeff wrote: |
Apparently none of the moderators have moved this *MQ* question out of the *Broker* forum.
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Ok, ok so I missed one. Sue me. You just can't get the moderators the way you used to be able too. 
(I mean, you wouldn't do it. That's how I got the job....)
(Sorry, I was mixing you up with another prolific poster. But you sound just like him...  )
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:03 am Post subject: |
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Moved (belatedly) to more relevant section
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| matkalouie |
| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:47 am Post subject: |
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@Vitor
You have mentioned
"Create queue manager from the backup you made prior to installing the fix pack."
Can you please help me with how to create a backup of queuemanager, also queues and channels if possible.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| Can you please help me with how to create a backup of queuemanager, also queues and channels if possible. |
Ask the sys admin what they use to take backups of the file system. Take a backup of the WMQ file system.
Or backup the objects and accept you'll need to delete and reinstall the old version.
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| matkalouie |
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Is'nt there any other method apart from taking a filesystem backup ?
I am aware of saveqmgr utility....
Also in case of reverting, will restoring the filesystem backup restore the functionality?? |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| matkalouie wrote: |
| Is'nt there any other method apart from taking a filesystem backup ? |
Depending on your Unix, you might be able to use SMITY or similar to reverse the install. That's what I was aluding to when I said to ask your sys admins what they use. There's nothing in the WMQ product per se that does this.
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| Also in case of reverting, will restoring the filesystem backup restore the functionality?? |
If you put the file system back the way it was, what functionality would not be restored? 
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