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Calvino · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:04 am Post subject:

Hopefully an easy question for someone to answer:

"Does WMB7 support the setting of message property options? (or in fact will WMB6.1 support it?)"

I've read the infocenters both 6.1 and 7 and can find no mention of it. I've tried it locally (WMB 6.1.0.8 with MQ7.0.1.1) and it looks like WMB6.1 does not support this.

Here's my problem:

We currently use MQ6 (AIX and ZOS) and have an EBCDIC RFH2 header which we use to set up usr properties. Now I know that is not offically supported, but before we started to use it we checked with IBM who said they had a number of customers adopting this solution.

We are now upgrading to MQ7 and have found that ebcdic usr folders are no longer compatible on ZOS - they are converted to ascii and are now unreadable to our apps. (Strangely they do still work on distributed MQ7 - for now!). We have a PMR with IBM and they are delivering an APAR for this issue at the end of the month, to help their customers upgrade successfully. So far so good ...

IBMs recommended solution is to use the new MQ7 message property options to store this data. So what I would like to do is set up these properties in message boker for the message flows impacted (that way I only have to change my back end APIs, and my multiple client APIs can all remain unchanged).

Here's where I start to hit problems - we are currently running 6.1.0.8, and I can't find a way to set up anything in the MQSMPO - perhaps not all that surprising.

But - I've trawled through the WMB7 infocenter and I can't find any mention of MQSMPO in there. Does anyone know if it is supported, or if there are any plans to suppport this in a future release?

Thanks