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| P8World |
 Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 1:41 am Post subject: Things to consider before applying fixpack for MQ 7.5 |
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Hi all,
I am new to the forum and MQ.
I have a customer which is a Financial Institute. I am tasked to install the Fix pack 3 and 4 on an existing MQ 7.5 installation with OS Linux.
From MQ Fix pack installation, what are the key things to consider before applying the fix pack.
I believe, MQ Fix pack 4 will be sufficient as its cumulative so there is no need to install Fix pack 3. Please correct me if I am wrong.
On high level, I am thinking to do the following steps:
1- Backup the existing installation so that I will have a restore point in case roll back is required?
2- Copy the installation media and check the disk space.
3- Update the fix pack and verify after completing the patch.
4- Verify the security certificate
5- Perform a smoke testing
6- Anything else?
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| zpat |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:17 am Post subject: |
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Fixpacks are cumulative - just apply the latest (actually this is 7.5.0.5 now).
What platform is this?
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| P8World |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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MQ Platform is Linux. I know about FP5 but would go for 4.
Can you share your thoughts about things to consider? |
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Consider showing your customer the several dozen fixes in 7505 not present in 7504.
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| P8World wrote: |
MQ Platform is Linux. I know about FP5 but would go for 4.
Can you share your thoughts about things to consider? |
How about using TLS with a non IBM JVM? 
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| zpat |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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On your other questions, my usual backout plan is to remove the fixpack and re-install the previous version (and/or previous fixpack).
Restoring the binaries would leave them out of step with the software installation registry (whatever it's called in Linux).
You should practise the backout process to make sure it's going to work, and also consider the use of multi-install as way to migrate and backout.
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| P8World |
| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 1:14 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for sharing your thought and experiences
Can you please shed some light on multi-install and backout.
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| multi-install as way to migrate and backout. |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 3:23 am Post subject: |
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Since 7.0.1.6 (I think, check it out in the infocenter) you can have more than 1 version of the product co-exist on the same host. This is what zpat meant with multi-installation.
Have fun
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
Since 7.0.1.6 (I think, check it out in the infocenter) you can have more than 1 version of the product co-exist on the same host. This is what zpat meant with multi-installation.
Have fun |
Multi-installation is new to midrange MQ, but has been on MVS (z/OS) for many years.
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