Uninstalling silently on Windows

You must use the uninstall wizard detailed below to remove WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker. Do not use a native uninstallation program.

You can remove WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker without user interaction. This process is called unattended (or silent) removal and it uses a response file. This is a text file that contains values for the options you select when you uninstall WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker.

  1. Stop all running processes that use any part of WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker (brokers, Configuration Manager, and User Name Server) before uninstalling.

    Use the mqsilist (list resources) command to check which components are running. Stop each component using the mqsistop command. End all active sessions of the Message Brokers Toolkit.

  2. If you do not plan to reinstall on this computer, delete all the runtime components. When you delete a component, all its associated data and resources are deleted.

    Use the following commands to delete one or more components: mqsideletebroker command, mqsideleteconfigmgr command, and mqsideleteusernameserver command.

  3. Optional: Create a response file to record your uninstallation options. To do this, issue a command similar to the following example:
    start /w uninstaller.exe -options-record <responsefile>
    where
    -options-record  <responsefile>
    specifies that the uninstall wizard generates a response file <responsefile> in the current directory from the options that you select during the uninstallation. To ensure this response file is not deleted as part of the uninstallation, create this response file in another directory.

    You can run the uninstallation program in silent mode without a response file. If you do so, the program assumes all the default values.

  4. Rerun the uninstallation program specifying the silent options and the response file that was created in the previous step:
    start /w uninstaller.exe -options <responsefile> -silent
    The uninstallation program runs without interaction according to the options selected when you recorded the response file. Omit the response file parameter if you want to run the uninstallation program with default options.
Related tasks
Installing silently on Windows
Uninstalling the full product on Windows
Related reference
mqsideletebroker command
mqsideleteconfigmgr command
mqsideleteusernameserver command
mqsilist (list resources) command
mqsistop command