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| narki |
 Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:22 pm Post subject: Dermining EBCIDIC or ASCII |
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Acolyte
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| I have quick question, I have flow in which I need to determine wether the message sent is EBCIDIC or ASCII. Depending on that there is a flag in the database which I need to update. I just want to what is the best way to determine wether the mesage is EBCDIC or ASCII. Any help in this regaris is higly appriciateble. |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: Dermining EBCIDIC or ASCII |
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| narki wrote: |
| I have quick question, I have flow in which I need to determine wether the message sent is EBCIDIC or ASCII. Depending on that there is a flag in the database which I need to update. I just want to what is the best way to determine wether the mesage is EBCDIC or ASCII. Any help in this regaris is higly appriciateble. |
Don't use a flag. If you save the message "as is", you also need to save its CCSID and Encoding, and possibly format.
If you do not save the message as a BLOB the question is meaningless.
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| narki |
| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:33 am Post subject: |
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fjp_saper,
I do not have any choice, as this is existing application. This is rquest and response flow, request messages flow can receive messages EBCDIC or ASCII , which goes through various message flow before it finally goes to reponse message flow which uses this flag to to send back message in the same format in which request has sent the messages. |
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| zpat |
| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:36 am Post subject: |
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Look at the MQMD.CCSID in the message tree.
Well written MQ applications issue MQGET with MQGMO_CONVERT so that they do not care which codepage the message was sent in. |
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| narki |
| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:51 am Post subject: |
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Acolyte
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| Yes I know that MQMD.CCSID can be used for determining the the EBCDIC or ASCII but there can many code page which can be EBCDIC. Also I realyy do not care in request flow , its in response which which need to use the same code page to sent message to requester. |
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| kimbert |
| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| its in response which which need to use the same code page to sent message to requester. |
So save the code page ( the one in the final MQ header ). If you only save a flag then you risk putting the wrong code page onto the output message. |
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