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Hi,
Is there any update/movement on implementing this feature?
Which is considered essential by many users, it is benefical to have access to the IBM MQ Web Console if the Queue manager is down/before the queue is started so that you could see what the issue is - especially when accessing the system remotely from another machine beside the MQ Server via the IBM MQ Web Console.
This enhancement to the strmqweb.bat should be relatively easy in my opinion.
If you examine the strmqweb.bat it calls the ...web\bin\server.bat script which is the utility referenced in the article https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/base?topic=line-starting-stopping-liberty-server-as-windows-service.
If you examine ...web\bin\server.bat , it has the options to registerWinService, startWinService, stopWinservice, unregisterWinService.
To my simple mind these option needs to be exposed via the strmqweb.bat script, where these options can be passed in via strmqweb and passed on to the call to ..\web\bin\server.bat after strmqweb.bat has set the MQ environment variables.
Alternatively have a new version of strmqweb.bat called "strmqweb_winService.bat" that sets the the environement like strmqweb and then calls ..\web\bin\server.bat with the registerWinService option first, calls ..\web\bin\server.bat a second time with the startWinService option.
Similarly the endmqweb.bat could be called with the "stopWinservice" option passed to the ..\web\.bin\server.bat when the user/operator invokes the STOP task in the Windows service panel for the IBM MQ Web Server service.
Just my tu'pence.
We do not think that this is something that MQ will implement directly in the web console installation. However https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/base?topic=line-starting-stopping-liberty-server-as-windows-service shows a way that you can setup a liberty instance as a windows service. That can probably be adapted to work with the MQ-supplied liberty.