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| Conversion of packed data to Unix numeric format |
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| John |
 Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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I would like to know if MQSI V2 can convert packed data to numeric data recognized by Unix.
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| kirani |
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Yes, you can do this by defining your messages in MRM.
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| John |
| Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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Great. Could you please provide a summary on how to accomplish the data conversion? or How to define it on Message Sets?
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| Cliff |
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John,
you need to define your input and output messages in one or more message sets in the normal manner, and assign your input fields to output fields in a Compute node again in the usual way. What you then need to do is to set the Encoding and CodedCharSetId fields of the output MQMD, so when the MQOutput node constructs the output bitstream it will apply the desired format:
Set OutputRoot.MQMD.Encoding = 273; /* Ascii big-endian */
Set OutputRoot.MQMD.CodedCharSetId = 437; /* UK code page */
You'll have to find out the values for your UNIX environment, of course!
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| kirani |
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John,
What Cliff said is correct. I will try to give an example here to explain further.
Let's say you have a Packed Decimal field coming from Mainframe system which is defined as follows in the COBOL copybook,
03 FIELD-XXX PIC S9(14)V9(2) PACKED-DECIMAL.
After you import this into MRM, it is going to create element FIELD_XXX whose Logical Type is Float and Physical Type is Packed Decimal. Depending on your picture clause it is going to set other fields like Length - 9 bytes, Virtual Decimal - 2, ....
Now lets say you want to covert this field into numeric data type before sending it to UNIX system. The field that maps to this in UNIX is defined as follows,
struct some_struct {
...
double FIELD_XXX;
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};
After you import this into MRM, you will get appropriate element physical and logical type.
Define 2 messages that maps to your COBOL and C structure into MRM.
You do the mapping from COBOL Copybook to C structure in a Compute node. Set the appropriate CCSID and Encoding in the MQMD header when the message is sent to UNIX system.
This will give you a field in numeric format on UNIX system!
Please let us know if you have further questions.
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| John |
| Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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Cliff and Kiran,
Thank you very much. I will give it a try.
[ This Message was edited by: John on 2002-04-23 16:39 ] |
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