Bobbee - Ditto on what Linda said.
OTMA Bridge has always been that 'special case' for conversion. We went w/ CONVERT(YES) on the chl, as well. I also agree that 'Receiver Makes Good' is a great policy...if you can enforce it!!! Cliff Notes version....it's still CONVERT(YES) !!! Cheers, Art Arthur C. Schanz Lead Operating Systems Programmer Federal Reserve Information Technology Messaging Middleware Support IBM Certified System Administrator, Solutions Designer - WebSphere MQ V6.0 (804) 697-3889 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Barton, Linda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: MQSeries List <MQSERIES@LISTSERV.MEDUNIWIEN.AC.AT> 03/27/2008 10:00 AM Please respond to MQSeries List <MQSERIES@LISTSERV.MEDUNIWIEN.AC.AT> To MQSERIES@LISTSERV.MEDUNIWIEN.AC.AT cc Subject Re: IMS Bridge Data Conversion We ended up having to turn conversion ON for the channels from the mainframe to the midrange for any nodes that were using OTMA/IMS. That of course has come back to bite us as applications move around. Although our standards say the application is responsible to do the convert on the MQGET, they do not. Now that they are migrating to new environments, all of a sudden their messages are NOT converted! Imagine that! But when we started with OTMA oh?.10 years ago, we ran into this issue and put conversion on the sending channel to the midrange. Linda Barton Personal Market Information Technology - Application Technology services (ATS) From: MQSeries List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Broderick Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:51 AM To: MQSERIES@LISTSERV.MEDUNIWIEN.AC.AT Subject: IMS Bridge Data Converson Ok Enough of this ideology stuff. IMS Bridge, Solaris as the Service Requestor, z/OS as the Obvious Service Provider. Solaris to z/OS is OK. Reply message to Solaris box is ending up in 37/500 CCSID. It indicates that you can specify a value in the FORMAT field that MQ is supposed to react to. But then in the same breath the manual seems to indicate you need to implement a channel exit for conversion. Any one out there doing this and want to shed some quick light?? bobbee Watch ?Cause Effect,? a show about real people making a real difference. Learn more. List Archive - Manage Your List Settings - Unsubscribe Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com List Archive - Manage Your List Settings - Unsubscribe Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and, in the message body (not the subject), write: SIGNOFF MQSERIES Instructions for managing your mailing list subscription are provided in the Listserv General Users Guide available at http://www.lsoft.com Archive: http://listserv.meduniwien.ac.at/archives/mqser-l.html
