Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 11:07 pm Post subject: problem when sending EBCDIC msg from TPF to a UNIX machine.
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> One of our projects face a translation problem when sending EBCDIC msg
from
> TPF to a UNIX machine.
>
> The flow of the message is TPF -> MQ -> JMS Client.
>
> TPF will put EBCDIC message on the MQ Server, and the JMS Client will
> retrieve it as ASCII.
>
> The client, previously on NT, have no problems in translating all the
> EBCDIC characters in the message.
>
> When moved to UNIX, the client could not decode the EBCDIC CR/LF to
ASCII.
> The CR/LF is given as 156C in EBCDIC and should be translated to 0A0D in
> ASCII.
>
> I have changed the CCSID to 819 on the UNIX machine but the CR/LF is
still
> not translated. All other characters are translated correctly except for
> the carriage return and line feed.
>
> Could u provide some insight on this?
>
> Below is a sample MQMD sent by TPF, as viewed in MQ server:
>
> MQMD (Message Descriptor):
>
> StrucId MD
> Version 1
> Report 0x00000000 (MQRO_COPY_MSG_ID_TO_CORREL_ID)
> (MQRO_NEW_MSG_ID)
> (MQRO_NONE)
> MsgType 0x00000008 (MQMT_DATAGRAM)
> Expiry -1 (MQEI_UNLIMITED)
> Feedback 0x00000000 (MQFB_NONE)
> Encoding 0x00000000 (MQENC_INTEGER_UNDEFINED)
> (MQENC_DECIMAL_UNDEFINED)
> (MQENC_FLOAT_UNDEFINED)
> CodedCharSetId 500
> Format MQSTR
> Priority 1
> Persistence 0x00000001 (MQPER_PERSISTENT)
> MsgId 0x414D5120 51444D53 44303020 20202020 3E1CFFA7
> 01B9C013
> CorrelId 0x00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000
> BackoutCount 0
> ReplyToQ
> ReplyToQMgr QDMSD00
> UserIdentifier mqm
> ApplIdentityData
> PutApplType 23
> PutApplName UMQ0
> PutDate 20030114
> PutTime 04005850
> ApplOriginData
>
>
> Thanks.
Joined: 14 Feb 2002 Posts: 1261 Location: Detroit,MI USA
Well 3 Questions
1) Did your NT MQ Channels have CONVERT set to YES ???
2) Are you using MQGET with CONVERT ???
3) Is the message format in the MQMD set to MQFMT_STRING ???? _________________ Jeff
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