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| Sam12345 |
 Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 4:33 am Post subject: MQGET convert EBCDIC to ASCII? |
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I am reading a mainframe message that is in EBCDIC.
I am using these options (written in Perl):
my $GetMsgOpts = {
Options =>
MQGMO_ACCEPT_TRUNCATED_MSG => 64,
MQGMO_WAIT,
MQGMO_NO_SYNCPOI-NT,
MQGMO_CONVERT,
};
But my message is still junkish (tech term)...
I cannot find specific info on EBCDIC convert.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Sam |
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| bower5932 |
| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| What does the MQMD Format field have in it? You can use the amqsbcg sample to look at it. If it isn't "MQSTR ", MQ will have trouble converting it. |
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| Sam12345 |
| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:57 am Post subject: |
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This is the msg Descriptor
my $MsgDesc = {ReplyToQ => ("OUTPUT"),
Format => MQFMT_STRING}; # MQGet message descriptor |
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| mrlinux |
| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:17 am Post subject: |
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The application that is putting the ebcdic message on the queue must
set the MQMD Format field to MQSTR, otherwise it will not get converted on the get.
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| Sam12345 |
| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| mrlinux |
| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:53 am Post subject: |
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Well you should be able to look at it and tell if they are ???
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| Sam12345 |
| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:23 am Post subject: |
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They are.
Do I have to set Encoding or CodedCharSetId to ASCII, somehow?
Thank you for your time and patience. |
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| mrlinux |
| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:49 am Post subject: |
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You shouldnt need to do anything,
are you client connecting to the mainframe ????
also the MQMD.FORMAT field is 8 bytes long, it "MQSTR " ???
There should be 3 spaces following "MQSTR" They dont seem to show
up on this page
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| bower5932 |
| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:19 am Post subject: |
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| Try using amqsbcg to look at the message. It will dump out the MQMD format so that you can see what actually got put on the queue. |
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