Here’s a little script I made for starting and stopping Websphere MQ on a RHEL 4. It is useful for a simple configuration with one Queue Manager and listener. Just put your queue manager name in the QMGR variable and the listener port to the PORT variable, and save the script to your /etc/init.d.

Please understand that this script does not check if the processes actually stay up or die as they should. But it is useful for automating the tasks during a reboot.

If you are looking for a more powerful administration tool for MQ, check out Dr. Johannes B