IBM MQ crtmqm instance issue

Morning,

Short notice. If you are trying to create a queue manager and receive following error:

AMQ8101: WebSphere MQ error (893) has occurred.

and you also have lots of space in you qmgrs and log directory, don’t look further than that.

In some cases it happens because the install in /var/mqm is not complete. The small fix was by manually defining /var/mqm/mqs.ini, but i advise you to reinstall the framework.

Before:

$ ls -ltr /var/mqm/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     system          256 Mar 21 13:14 lost+found
drwxrwsrwt    2 mqm      mqm             256 Mar 29 15:22 trace
drwxrwsr-x    3 mqm      mqm             256 Mar 29 15:22 qmgrs
drwxrwsr-x    3 mqm      mqm             256 Mar 29 15:22 sockets
drwxrwsr-x    3 mqm      mqm             256 Mar 29 15:22 shared
drwxrwsrwt    2 mqm      mqm            4096 Apr 03 12:10 errors

After:

$ ls -ltr /var/mqm
total 32
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     system          256 Mar 21 13:14 lost+found
drwxrwsrwx    2 mqm      mqm             256 Mar 29 15:22 trace
drwxrwsrwx    2 mqm      mqm            4096 Apr 03 12:10 errors
drwxrwsr-x    3 mqm      mqm             256 Apr 03 12:14 sockets
drwxrwsr-x    3 mqm      mqm             256 Apr 03 12:14 qmgrs
drwxrwsr-x    2 mqm      mqm             256 Apr 03 12:20 config
drwxrwsr-x    3 mqm      mqm             256 Apr 03 12:20 conv
drwxrwsr-x    2 mqm      mqm             256 Apr 03 12:20 log
-rw-rw-r--    1 mqm      mqm            1941 Apr 03 12:20 service.env
drwxrwsr-x    5 mqm      mqm             256 Apr 03 12:20 mqft
drwxrwsr-x    4 mqm      mqm             256 Apr 03 12:20 shared
-rw-rw-r--    1 mqm      mqm            1156 Apr 03 12:20 mqs.ini
-rw-rw-r--    1 mqm      mqm             637 Apr 03 12:20 mqclient.ini
drwxrwsr-x    3 mqm      mqm             256 Apr 03 12:20 exits
drwxrwsr-x    3 mqm      mqm             256 Apr 03 12:20 exits64

Cheers!