MQSeries.net :: View topic - XML-CWF Conversion Flow Design Help & Best practices

bradhakrishna · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:01 am Post subject:

Hi All,
We are new to MQSI, so need some help on design.

Our Requirement:
We want to create message flows that receive self defining XML messages and converts them to CWF predefined format (fixed length) to pass on to applications on OS/390.

Our System setup:
We have sending application on AIX, MQSI installed on another AIX server and the receiving applications are on OS/390.

What we have done so far:
1) We have created the XML message structure, got the DTD from it.
2) On WMSI, created message set. Added CWT and XML layers to it
3) Imported DTD into the message set
4) Created message flow with the following nodes,
MQInput --> Try/Catch --> Compute --> MQOutput
5) In the Compute Node, selected the input and out put message formats as defined above, Checked 'copy complete message', added a line in the ESQL as: SET OutputRoot.Properties.MessageFormat = 'CWF';

My questions:
1) Is there any thing else we need to do?
2) How to make sure that my CWF format of the message fields are of fixed length? That is padding with zeroes, null etc based on the XML attribute values. One thing is our XML message will have all the attributes we need at all the times, but the attribute length might vary, still having max length limit.
3) What exception handling we need to do? What are the nodes we need to use. Our requirement is on exception we need to copy certain fields from the message and form an exception message and put that on exception queue. Any help on how to do this.
4) What ESQL still we need to write in the Compute node.

Really appreciate your time and help.

Thanks
Radha