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| Remove Null characters from COBOL message |
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| Tanesh |
 Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:52 pm Post subject: Remove Null characters from COBOL message |
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Hi,
We are using MB 6.1.0.4 and we have message flow like this -
MQInput --> Compute ---> MQOutput
We get input COBOL message and transform it into XML and put into another queue.
We have COBOL copybook of Level 01, from which we have created the message set. We used MRM domain to parse incoming COBOL message.
Now the incoming COBOL message contains NULL characters
(unicode x00) in couple of fields and we want to get these characters removed by parser itself so that we do not need to handle such NULL chars in ESQL code.
We explored a little bit on message set and we found out one option while importing COBOL copybook into message set. This option was -
Create null values for all fields
We need to set four options when we enable this option as SPACE, NUL, 0x00 or 0xFF.
I went through MB Infocenter documentation, and as per my understanding, this option should remove NULL chars from incoming message and substitute it with one of the four above options which we set.
We tried all four options one by one to see how incoing NULL chars got removed with one of these four options but none of them worked.
Is there anybody who can help us to resolve this issue ?
Thanks,
Tanesh. |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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The option makes more sense on an outgoing message.
On an incoming message you need to set the option to what the MF is sending.
Be careful, the MF may not initialize all fields (i.e. filler) and you may well get junk that the parser cannot interpret. Make sure the MF initializes the values in the CopyBook before sending the record to MQ.
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| kimbert |
| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:30 am Post subject: |
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Now the incoming COBOL message contains NULL characters
(unicode x00) in couple of fields and we want to get these characters removed by parser itself so that we do not need to handle such NULL chars in ESQL code. |
Are the NULL characters included within the character value of these fields, or are the fields entirely composed of NULLs?
In other words, are you trying to
a) detect fields which are NULL-valued, or
b) fields which contain NULL characters
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| I went through MB Infocenter documentation, and as per my understanding, this option should remove NULL chars from incoming message and substitute it with one of the four above options which we set. |
Can you quote the infocenter topic where it says that? |
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