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texarcana
PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 1:50 am    Post subject: The MQ message could not be read: Input length = 1. Reply with quote

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Hello,

I'm using an enterprise application (java based) which has an OOTB solution for reading and sending messages using MQ.

I need to retrieve a message (format is MQIMS containing LLZ header + SOAP payload) from a queue, but when retrieving the message, the content is not what is expected.

I retrieve the following content:
The MQ message could not be read: Input length = 1.

Unfortunately I cannot find any documentation regarding this.

Does anyone here happen to encounter this already before.
Or can point me to a good direction.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Steve
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Your producing application may not be sending what you expect.
Look at the message with RFHUtil(c) before it gets consumed by IMS...
Fix the producer
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:31 pm    Post subject: Re: The MQ message could not be read: Input length = 1. Reply with quote

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texarcana wrote:
I need to retrieve a message (format is MQIMS containing LLZ header + SOAP payload) from a queue, but when retrieving the message, the content is not what is expected.

I retrieve the following content:
The MQ message could not be read: Input length = 1.

What you describe is NOT an MQIMS (aka MQIIH) message destined for the IMS Bridge. If you are creating the message then you need to do MORE reading in the MQ Knowledge Center. If the software is from a vendor then ask for your money back.

An MQIMS message destined for the IMS Bridge will generally have the following format:

MQIIH LLZZ<trancode><data> [LLZZ<data>] [LLZZ<data>]

The total length of the message includes MQIIH Header (84) + LLZZ (4) + trancode {8} + data length.

Also, LL is a length value which includes LLZZ (4) + trancode length {8} + data length.

There are better tools for dealing with MQIMS messages than RFHUTIL. i.e. MQ Visual Edit and MQEdit.

Note: You can send a message to the IMS Bridge without an MQIIH header but I don't recommend it as it is a lot trickier.

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Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
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texarcana
PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Hello,

Thank you for your feedback.

Actually this is what is happening.

A front end application sends a SOAP message to the ESB service.
The ESB puts the message on MQ (encapsulated with the MQ header) which is then send to a mainframe service.

I was asked to virtualize the mainframe service.
The MQ team told me that the msg format to be used is MQIMS.

Now when they are doing the test against the virtual service, the incoming request has not the expected content.

I also wrote a smoketest in my virtualization application to retrieve the message from the queue, which was working fine. There was a convert charset option enabled to 819 (UTF-.

But since a few days this is also no longer working, so I'm wondering if it's possible that this issue is caused by a change on MQ level?
Although the team says they have not changed anything.

The MQ team says that the MQ message has a charset of 1208.
I tried in the virtualization software to enforce a charset of 1208, but it is not working.

I have already opened a support case with the vendor, but I wanted to ask the question to the MQ experts here as well to see if anyone already encountered this specific message.

Kr,
Steve
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smdavies99
PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Just a point,

Character Set 819 is not UTF-8. It is a variant of ISO-8859(from memory)

Character set 1208 is UTF-8
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