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| timmq |
 Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:42 am Post subject: Sending Test Message From COBOL |
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Hi,
We are in the process of intergrating mainframe applications with a EAI tool. Websphere MQ is used as MOM tool. When the data is written to MQ from Cobol using MQPUT, the format of the message is in the Byte format. But the EAI tool throws an Error saying 'Unsuported format', since it supports only text messages. Is there any way I can set the message format as TEXT, when writing the message to queue using MQPUT?
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:12 am Post subject: |
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Yes. Set the format field of the MQMD to MQFMT_STRING
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: Re: Sending Test Message From COBOL |
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| timmq wrote: |
| When the data is written to MQ from Cobol using MQPUT, the format of the message is in the Byte format. But the EAI tool throws an Error saying 'Unsuported format', since it supports only text messages. |
Is the data actually 'text' (string) format (i.e. not 'PIC 9')? If so, then do as Jeff suggested.
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| timmq |
| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanx guys..It worked fine.. |
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| EddieA |
| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject: Re: Sending Test Message From COBOL |
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| RogerLacroix wrote: |
| Is the data actually 'text' (string) format (i.e. not 'PIC 9')? |
Actually, PIC 9 is equivalent to "text".
Now, any other variation, using a sign field, or anything using COMP, COMP-3, etc. isn't.
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| timmq |
| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:42 am Post subject: Converting from Ascii to MF format |
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Hi,
Thanx for resolving the first problem I faced. But I am facing the conversion problem in processing the response. The client(JAVA) that is sending the XML response is in ASCII format. But the mainframe is not able to read and process it. Do I need to specify any options like 'MQFMT_STRING' while reading the data to convert into a format that mainframe can understand?
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:39 pm Post subject: Re: Converting from Ascii to MF format |
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| timmq wrote: |
Hi,
Thanx for resolving the first problem I faced. But I am facing the conversion problem in processing the response. The client(JAVA) that is sending the XML response is in ASCII format. But the mainframe is not able to read and process it. Do I need to specify any options like 'MQFMT_STRING' while reading the data to convert into a format that mainframe can understand?
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Make sure the sender (java) sent a message with following characteristics:
MQMD.Format = MQFMT_STRING
and if JMS the message needs to be a javax.jms.TextMessage and the queue needs to be defined with a targetClient=1 (MQ).
When you do the get, add the option Get with convert.
Enjoy 
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| Blomman |
| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:08 am Post subject: Re: Converting from Ascii to MF format |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
| timmq wrote: |
Hi,
Thanx for resolving the first problem I faced. But I am facing the conversion problem in processing the response. The client(JAVA) that is sending the XML response is in ASCII format. But the mainframe is not able to read and process it. Do I need to specify any options like 'MQFMT_STRING' while reading the data to convert into a format that mainframe can understand?
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Make sure the sender (java) sent a message with following characteristics:
MQMD.Format = MQFMT_STRING
and if JMS the message needs to be a javax.jms.TextMessage and the queue needs to be defined with a targetClient=1 (MQ).
When you do the get, add the option Get with convert.
Enjoy |
So i only has to set MQMD.Format = MQFMT_STRING if i am not using JMS??
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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No in both cases you want to change the MF to do the GET with Convert...
You might have to handle the warning if no convert is necessary...
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