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Status Not under consideration
Workspace MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 7, 2025

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We need a IBM MQ C and .NET redistributable client for Linux 64-bit,x86_64 that does not contain 32-bit executable/libraries

Currently, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.4.x?topic=clients-limitations-other-considerations-redistributable includes a warning: "Important: IBM Support is only able to provide assistance with the full, unmodified set of files contained within the redistributable client packages." We want to eliminate the presence of any 32-bit executables/libraries. Even though genmqpkg can be used to create a package without the 32-bit executables/libraries, the generated package is not fully supported by IBM.

We would like IBM to provide a release of IBM MQ redistributable client 9.4 LTS and/or CDS for Linux 64-bit, x86_64 that excludes 32-bit executables/libraries and is fully supported by IBM.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Oct 23, 2025

    I have stumbled across a similar thing. The GSKit package of the MQ client will automatically install the 32-bit and the 64-bit version of the binaries. It would be nice to have two RPMs (one for each bitism). That way I can only install the 64-bit package if that's what I need.

    The notion of the OP is similar - I would like to install 64-bit only installations. I keep seeing users accidentally work with the 32-bit versions and then running into issues.

    Is this worth its own idea?

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  • Admin
    Dylan Goode
    Oct 21, 2025

    Thank you for your suggestion.

    IBM MQ already supports creating a 64-bit redistributable client for Linux using the genmqpkg tool. This tool allows you to build smaller, self-consistent client packages that exclude 32-bit executables and libraries.

    The notice in the documentation refers specifically to users who manually extract a subset of client libraries, rather than those using genmqpkg. We’ll update the documentation to clarify this distinction.

    We also recommend including the ras component when creating a smaller client package with genmqpkg, as this ensures that the relevant diagnostic tools are available to assist IBM Support in troubleshooting.

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