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| mboldrin |
 Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:02 pm Post subject: MQ and C# |
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I am new to MQ....
I am using some canned code (C# example from IBM) to put a message to a MQ queue. When I put the message into the queue, it appears in a double byte character format. Is there any way to convert it to single byte. |
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| csmith28 |
| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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Please be more verbose about this issue.
WMQ Version?
Operating System Platform?
What sample script are you using to put the messages?
I am assuming amqsput.
What do you mean by "double byte character format"?
What are you using to browse the message once it reaches the Queue?
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| mboldrin |
| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:27 am Post subject: |
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WMQ Version?
Version: 5.3.0
Operating System Platform?
Windows
What sample script are you using to put the messages?
I am assuming amqsput.
basically I have set up a C# webservice in .NET to put messages to a queue
here is the important part.
mqMsg = new MQMessage();
mqMsg.WriteString(message);
mqMsg.Format = MQC.MQFMT_STRING; mqPutMsgOpts = new MQPutMessageOptions(); try
{
mqQueue.Put( mqMsg, mqPutMsgOpts);
}
What do you mean by "double byte character format"?
if I put a message into the queue such as test.
When it is in the queue it looks like "t.e.s.t" So a message of 4 charcter long becomes 8.
What are you using to browse the message once it reaches the Queue?
RFHUTIL and the MQ explorer
Thanks for any help, I have been messing around with changing the mpPurMsgOpts and the format of the message by changing it to MQC.MQFMT_NONE or using a UTF character set. But I have just been plugging in the dark. |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:34 am Post subject: |
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C# uses Unicode strings as default.
Unicode is a double-byte character standard.
Your code is doing what you are telling it to do.
It is *not* MQ.
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| zpat |
| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 6:21 am Post subject: |
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The important thing is to set the MQMD.CCSID to match the format of the data in the message. Ie set an ASCII CCSID with ASCII data, or a suitable DBCS CCSID with DBCS data.
A well written program will issue MQGET with CONVERT and therefore the actual character set is not critical as long as it matches the character set id in the MQMD.
If you don't code a CCSID you get the QM default which is probably ASCII Windows. |
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| mboldrin |
| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks - that is the ticket |
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