WebSphere MQ version identification

Hi,

just to confirm - you mentioned a client PC but did you mean an MQ client version or is it simply a queue manager running on a client PC version of which you'd like to query for?

Okay, if you meant the version of a queue manager then the PyMQI's equivalent of a following MQSC command

dis qmgr cmdlevel
     1 : dis qmgr cmdlevel
AMQ8408: Display Queue Manager details.
   QMNAME(QM01) CMDLEVEL(700)

would be:

import pymqi as mq
import CMQC, CMQCFC

qm_name = "QM01"
channel = "SVRCONN.1"
conn_info = "192.168.1.135(1434)"

op = mq.cd()
qm = mq.QueueManager(None)
ref = qm.connectTCPClient(qm_name, op, channel, conn_info)
pcf = mq.PCFExecute(qm)

params = pcf.MQCMD_INQUIRE_Q_MGR({CMQCFC.MQCMD_INQUIRE_SYSTEM: "*"})
if params:
    print params[0][CMQC.MQIA_COMMAND_LEVEL]

however I'm still not sure if you actually meant the version of a queue manager?

Thanks Dariusz

I am looking for the version of WebSphere MQ installed on the client...so the IBM versions 5.3.x, 6.0.x, 7.0.x. It will help our support staff if I can trace this information.

Thank you

Gary

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Hi,

just to confirm - you mentioned a client PC but did you mean an MQ
client version or is it simply a queue manager running on a client PC
version of which you'd like to query for?

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> I am looking for the version of WebSphere MQ installed on the client...so the IBM versions 5.3.x, 6.0.x, 7.0.x. It will help our
> support staff if I can trace this information.

Mhm, so it's not the queue managers. What operating systems are those MQ clients running on? I'm asking because it may be that the answer is outside of PyMQI, it could be a matter of querying the operation system's services. Is it Windows? Linux? Other systems?

It is Windows.

Gary

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> I am looking for the version of WebSphere MQ installed on the client...so the IBM versions 5.3.x, 6.0.x, 7.0.x. It will help our
> support staff if I can trace this information.

Mhm, so it's not the queue managers. What operating systems are those MQ
clients running on? I'm asking because it may be that the answer is
outside of PyMQI, it could be a matter of querying the operation
system's services. Is it Windows? Linux? Other systems?

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> It is Windows.

I think the best way is to ask the operating system, the case in fact doesn't involve communicating with MQ queue manager.
I'm sure there's a nice way to query the Windows package manager (or whatever they call it) for a version of "WebSphere MQ" application. Other, more hacky ways I can imagine:

- take advantage of MQ's setting MQ_JAVA_DATA_PATH environment variable and:
  - parse $MQ_JAVA_DATA_PATH/mqclient.ini file
  - parse META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file found in $MQ_JAVA_DATA_PATH/java/lib/com.ibm.mq.jar

But these are really gross hacks I feel stupid to even mention :-)

Thanks for your help. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a built in call.

Gary

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Dariusz Suchojad proposed the following answer:

> It is Windows.

I think the best way is to ask the operating system, the case in fact doesn't involve communicating with MQ queue manager.
I'm sure there's a nice way to query the Windows package manager (or whatever they call it) for a version of "WebSphere MQ" application. Other, more hacky ways I can imagine:

- take advantage of MQ's setting MQ_JAVA_DATA_PATH environment variable and:
  - parse $MQ_JAVA_DATA_PATH/mqclient.ini file
  - parse META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file found in $MQ_JAVA_DATA_PATH/java/lib/com.ibm.mq.jar

But these are really gross hacks I feel stupid to even mention :-)

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Hm, hm, hm.. now that I think of it, there's one thing you could try - pymqe (not pymqi) exports an __mqlevel__variable,
on my system it is

>>> import pymqe
>>> pymqe.__mqlevels__
('5.0', '5.1', '5.2', '5.3', '6.0', '7.0')
>>>

however I'm not sure if it's available if there's an MQ client only installed. Can you try it out and let me know?

I don't think it's the version of the MQ client install. Not sure what it is...maybe supported versions for the current compile?

Gary

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Dariusz Suchojad posted a new comment:

Hm, hm, hm.. now that I think of it, there's one thing you could try - pymqe (not pymqi) exports an __mqlevel__variable,
on my system it is

>>> import pymqe
>>> pymqe.__mqlevels__
('5.0', '5.1', '5.2', '5.3', '6.0', '7.0')
>>>

however I'm not sure if it's available if there's an MQ client only
installed. Can you try it out and let me know?

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> I don't think it's the version of the MQ client install. Not sure what it is...maybe supported versions for the current compile?

It's the version of MQ libraries PyMQI has been compiled but I'm not sure if client MQ libraries also export the necessary symbols. Worth a try though.

It was. Thanks again for your help.

Gary

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> I don't think it's the version of the MQ client install. Not sure what
it is...maybe supported versions for the current compile?

It's the version of MQ libraries PyMQI has been compiled but I'm not
sure if client MQ libraries also export the necessary symbols. Worth a
try though.

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Solved.

Hi Dariusz Suchojad (dsuch), many thanks for this answer : dis qmgr cmdlevel

It was quite helpful as I was struggling to get the version of MQ 5. Here is what I got

dis qmgr cmdlevel
     1 : dis qmgr cmdlevel
AMQ8408: Display Queue Manager details.
   QMNAME(QMA_ICDPRD01) CMDLEVEL(500)