The WebSphere® MQ documentation is supplied separately on a CD-ROM alongside the product. You can either view the documents directly from CD, or you can install them on your computer (either before or after installing the WebSphere MQ product).
The WebSphere MQ online documentation
is delivered as on the documentation CD-ROM as PDFs on all platforms and as
an Information Center on Linux® (x86 platform) and Windows® only.
Documentation for WebSphere MQ Version 6.0 is supplied as an Information Center based on the Eclipse framework. You can install the Information Center on any Linux (x86 platform) system supported by the WebSphere MQ V.6.0 product.
To use the Information Center you must have Mozilla 1.7 or later or a compatible web browser installed on your system.
rpm -ivh MQSeriesHelpSys-6.0.0-0.i386.rpm MQSeriesInfoCen-6.0.0-0.i386.rpmTo uninstall the Information Center, issue the command:
rpm -e MQSeriesHelpSys MQSeriesInfoCen
To start the Information Center, issue the command strmqinf This command starts the Information Center server in the background and opens a Web browser window at the Information Center welcome page.
Configuration information is stored in a directory .mqhelpdata in the user's home directory.
To stop the Information Center background process, issue the command: endmqinf
A PDF (Portable Document Format), corresponding to each hardcopy book, is available on the documentation CD-ROM. You can read PDFs using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Additionally, you can download them to your own file system, or print them.
Within these directories, you can find the complete set of PDFs that are available. Hardcopy books shows the file names used for the PDF files.