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		  | s1kenneth | 
		  
		    
			  
				 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:22 am    Post subject: EBCDIC to ASCII Conversion | 
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		   Newbie
 
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				Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:59 am    Post subject: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion.   
 
 
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Hi, 
 
Can anyone advice me about converting a MQMD Message ID field from EBCDIC to ASCII?  We tried setting CCSID to 1208 and 819 but neither worked.   
 
 
Any help . 
 
 
Thanks a lot. 
 
 
KenM. | 
			   
			 
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		  | EddieA | 
		  
		    
			  
				 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:45 am    Post subject:  | 
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		    Jedi
 
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				How many times does this have to be said:
 
 
The MessageID and CorrelationID fields are not characters, they are bytes.  Which is why MQ doesn't convert them, when it converts everything else.
 
 
Cheers, _________________ Eddie Atherton
 
IBM Certified Solution Developer - WebSphere Message Broker V6.1
 
IBM Certified Solution Developer - WebSphere Message Broker V7.0 | 
			   
			 
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		  | hopsala | 
		  
		    
			  
				 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:50 am    Post subject:  | 
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		    Guardian
 
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				The three (in)famous byte fields of MQMD - MsgId, CorrldId and GrpId - are not converted as the rest of the MQMD is, nor are they converted using GMO_CONVERT conversion for Format=strings; in other words, you'll have to do this manually.
 
Keeping in mind that these fields should only be used in request/reply scenarios - and are hence only copied but never referred to by any other appl but the same one who set it - this is not a problem if you have a sound MQ design. Thus the question arises, why do you need to convert MessageId?
 
 
Further reference: JMS - correlation ID (you could have found this yourself...) | 
			   
			 
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		  | wschutz | 
		  
		    
			  
				 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:50 am    Post subject:  | 
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		    Jedi Knight
 
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	| The three (in)famous byte fields of MQMD - MsgId, CorrldId and GrpId  | 
   
 
Hopsala...what about the nearly famous AccountingToken field?   _________________ -wayne | 
			   
			 
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		  | hopsala | 
		  
		    
			  
				 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:30 am    Post subject:  | 
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		    Guardian
 
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				In truth, I am unsure whether you are frowning at me or at the AccountingToken    
 
 
Anyway, you'd admit that the AccountingToken is not as famous as the trio I mentioned, and has no bearing upon this specific post; I merely listed those that seemed relevant... | 
			   
			 
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		  | jefflowrey | 
		  
		    
			  
				 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:41 am    Post subject:  | 
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		   Grand Poobah
 
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		  | hopsala | 
		  
		    
			  
				 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:00 am    Post subject:  | 
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		    Guardian
 
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				Ah, nothing like a good public denounement to brighten up my day    
 
 
To all in question, my sincere apologies, and a good night! | 
			   
			 
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