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Thomasb
PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:07 am    Post subject: Converting between EBCDIC and ANSI on Windows Reply with quote

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I have a COBOL application in Windows that internally works with EBCDIC. When posting a message to a local queue on a Windows QM the message is said to have character set 850 and Encoding 546.

When reading the message from a .NET application I get garbage back.

OK! I set the MQC.MQGMO_CONVERT property in my MQGetMessageOptions object but get an INVALID FORMAT error.

We have no problem sending and reading message between z/OS and Windows.

Any hints?
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Nigelg
PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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INVALID_FORMAT returned from MQGET with CONVERT means that you are trying to convert a msg with a blank Format field in the MQMD.
Make sure that you set the Format field in the MQMD of the msg when you create it.
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moi3
PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I also have same problem. I'm sending from HP UX to mainframe. What value should I set for the Format and encoding in the message when I try to send to mainframe. Any sample code would be great. thanks
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bower5932
PostPosted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Set the format to 'MQSTR ' if your message is nothing but text. You can always use amqsbcg to browse your message and see what is currently set.
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