MQSeries.net :: View topic - problem when sending EBCDIC msg from TPF to a UNIX machine.

aninair · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 4:41 am Post subject:

> One of our projects face a translation problem when sending EBCDIC msg
from
> TPF to a UNIX machine.
>
> The flow of the message is TPF -> MQ -> JMS Client.
>
> TPF will put EBCDIC message on the MQ Server, and the JMS Client will
> retrieve it as ASCII.
>
> The client, previously on NT, have no problems in translating all the
> EBCDIC characters in the message.
>
> When moved to UNIX, the client could not decode the EBCDIC CR/LF to
ASCII.
> The CR/LF is given as 156C in EBCDIC and should be translated to 0A0D in
> ASCII.
>
> I have changed the CCSID to 819 on the UNIX machine but the CR/LF is
still
> not translated. All other characters are translated correctly except for
> the carriage return and line feed.
>
> Could u provide some insight on this?
>
> Below is a sample MQMD sent by TPF, as viewed in MQ server:
>
> MQMD (Message Descriptor):
>
> StrucId MD
> Version 1
> Report 0x00000000 (MQRO_COPY_MSG_ID_TO_CORREL_ID)
> (MQRO_NEW_MSG_ID)
> (MQRO_NONE)
> MsgType 0x00000008 (MQMT_DATAGRAM)
> Expiry -1 (MQEI_UNLIMITED)
> Feedback 0x00000000 (MQFB_NONE)
> Encoding 0x00000000 (MQENC_INTEGER_UNDEFINED)
> (MQENC_DECIMAL_UNDEFINED)
> (MQENC_FLOAT_UNDEFINED)
> CodedCharSetId 500
> Format MQSTR
> Priority 1
> Persistence 0x00000001 (MQPER_PERSISTENT)
> MsgId 0x414D5120 51444D53 44303020 20202020 3E1CFFA7
> 01B9C013
> CorrelId 0x00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000
> BackoutCount 0
> ReplyToQ
> ReplyToQMgr QDMSD00
> UserIdentifier mqm
> ApplIdentityData
> PutApplType 23
> PutApplName UMQ0
> PutDate 20030114
> PutTime 04005850
> ApplOriginData
>
>
> Thanks.

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anita nair