Laurence Bonney Published on 07/11/2017 / Updated on 22/02/2018
At IBM MQ version 904, the IBM MQ Bridge to blockchain is available on Linux for connecting to advanced queue managers. Version 903 IBM MQ Bridge to blockchain for connecting to z/OS queue managers worked with the initial beta service in IBM Cloud. As we were preparing for 904, the IBM Blockchain offering expanded to include the Blockchain platform, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Composer, and several ways to explore setting up your own blockchain network that includes some sample blockchain networks that helped us get started. We tested the 904 bridge with two example networks and wanted to share how we set them up. We worked with:
In this post we share the steps for configuring an Ubuntu system for the local Hyperledger Fabric network. We used Docker and the Fabcar sample chaincode. Look out for the Part 2 post where we share our steps for the Kubernetes cluster network example.
If you reboot your machine, you'll have to rerun this command or add it to a startup job.
Once the Hyperledger Fabric containers are running, you can start configuring your IBM MQ Bridge to blockchain. You will need several parameters from your docker-compose.yml configuration file to allow the bridge to successfully connect to your Fabcar blockchain network. See Configuring IBM MQ for use with blockchain for more information.