Yep, that was the ticket. I'm off to do some stress testing now. Incidently I had entered a PMR with IBM support regarding the same issue and obviously they came up with the same respo ...
Thanks for the heads up. I kind of thought that the perl syntax may have been a little different, especially since I didn't really see any references to DataLength in the CPAN mqseries ...
I am new to mqseries and have almost no experience programming to the API. I have had success pulling data from the MQMD headers, but what I really need to get is the value of the DataLength ...