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Consider a scenario where you are migrating from IBM Integration Bus to IBM App Connect v11, specifically for containerized deployment. In this scenario, you might want to configure your IBM App Connect Version 11.0 deployment to take advantage of the flexibility benefits that are described earlier in this chapter. 

It might be possible to simplify your system so that your message flows interact with the remote queue managers, which might simplify the topology that you must manage. This simplification requires that you redesign your message flows and your topology. And it goes beyond just a migration of your existing solution. However, you might want to include these activities as part of your migration plans. 

You can build a customized IBM App Connect Docker image by combining MQ client libraries. 

The detailed instructions are available at the following OT4I GitHub repository under section Build an image with IBM Ap p Connect and MQ Client: https://github.com/ot4i/ace-docker . 

You require MQ Client libraries in order to deploy the MQ transport-based integration flows. 

For the purpose of demonstrating the IBM App Connect and remote MQ client connectivity, we use IBM App Connect-MQServer image. It inherently enables us with all the necessary MQ client libraries to deploy MQtransport based integration flows. However, we connect to a remote MQ server that runs in another container. The instructions described below will remain same if you were to try this with “IBM App Connect and MQ Client” built image. 

1. Find the information of your MQ instance that you intend to connect to. Your MQ instance could be running locally on-premises or in the container. For demonstration, we take an MQ instance that runs in our Cloud Pak for Integration platform. Figure 7-62 shows the Platform Navigator of Cloud Pak for Integration with couple of MQ instances. 

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2. Select the MQ instance that you want to connect to from the Messaging tile as shown in Figure 7-63 

