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sreenath

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:06 pm Post subject: Reading PDF from MQ into cics

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Joined: 10 Dec 2004
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I am going developing an CICS application which should reads a queue, copy the pdf to another que and email those documents as attachments. In this regard i like to know few things. (Queue contains PDF documents as messages)

1. How to read a pdf document into cics program? (Does MQGET call reads hole document into working storage variable section)
2. Can we use MQPUT call to write pdf to queue.
3. Can we attach pdf to mail without reading document into cics program?

I am new to MQ any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,
Sree

jefflowrey

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:34 pm Post subject:

Grand Poobah

Joined: 16 Oct 2002
Posts: 19981

Do you mean an Adobe Portable Document Format pdf document? Or some other PDF document?

Adobe PDFs are either plain text or binary, depending on how they are built. MQSeries does not generally care about the contents of an MQ message, unless you instruct it to care. So you should be able to insert this data into an MQSeries message regardless of whether it is built as a binary file or a text file.

MQSeries has no built in SMTP capabilities. You will have to write a program in SOMETHING that can read an MQ message and construct an email message. You could use CICS for that if you wanted. If you can find a CICS mechanism for sending email.
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sreenath

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:05 pm Post subject:

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Joined: 10 Dec 2004
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Thanks for your repply jefflowrey. I want to read Adobe Portable Document only. If you know can u tell how Binary data is read in COBOL CICS program if record lenght is 20000 (PIC ???).

kman

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:23 am Post subject:

Partisan

Joined: 21 Jan 2003
Posts: 309
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

I am guessing here..
you should use PIC S9(9) BINARY. That should be able to read binary data. This is COBOL specific. It is not WMQ.

guessing..

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