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CarlGalgano · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:42 am Post subject:

HI, total newbie to MQ, so be easy on me.
Here is the environment I am working in:
AS400 running V3.7 (I know it is old, but it is what I have right now)
I need to be able to send and receive EDI transactions with MQ upto the 4MB limit, although I seriously doubt any of the message would ever be greater than 1 MB.

I have an RPG compiler available to me (but can possibly get a C or CBL compiler if that will solve my problem).

I need to be able to read the contents of a file (multiple 80 byte records) and format a single MQ message and place it on the queue (I also need to be able to do the same when doing an MQGET). I am running into a array limitation in RPG of 9999 and records size of 32K, so I am assuming that is a limitation of the compiler. Does C or COBOL have the same limitations?

I would like to have a function that I can call from another routine that will take in a file name/library/member and the QUEUE, and either build an entire message from all the records in the file, or received the MQ queue and parse it into 80 byte records. I have the programming skills to do this in RPG, but not any other language.

Can first anyone confirm that C or COBOL can do this?

Thanks in advance.
Carl