Getting started
IBM® MQ as a Service enables you to quickly and easily deploy queue managers in the cloud and connect your applications to them, for reliable data transfer between different parts of your enterprise application landscape.
This document describes two approaches to get started with IBM® MQ as a Service:
- Getting started using the Guided Tour - this describes how to start the embedded tutorial, which will guide you through the process of creating and using your first IBM® MQ as a Service queue manager.
- Manually creating and using an IBM® MQ as a Service queue manager - this provides documented steps describing how to create and use your first IBM® MQ as a Service queue manager.
Before you begin
- You need an IBM Cloud® account.
- Permissions to create an IBM® MQ as a Service instance in the account.
Creating an IBM® MQ as a Service instance
To create an IBM® MQ as a Service instance:
- Go to the IBM Cloud Catalog
- Select MQ
- Select your desired region.
- Type in a service name.
- Select a plan, for example Lite.
- Click Create.
You are now presented with a view of your service instance from where you can view and manage your queue managers. This is also the page from which you can launch the Guided Tour.
Getting started using the Guided Tour
IBM® MQ as a Service comes with a Guided Tour, which provides step by step guidance through the following steps:
- Creating a queue manager
- Registering an application to put and get messages on a queue
- Administering a queue manager
You can launch the Guided Tour by selecting the Guided tours item from the help menu on the IBM Cloud header bar. Click 'Get started', then select one of the available tours.
Manually creating and using an IBM® MQ as a Service queue manager
As an alternative to the Guided Tour, you can instead follow the documented steps below to create and use the IBM® MQ as a Service service: