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Status Not under consideration
Workspace MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 3, 2022

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Make MQMD consistent across platforms

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On midrange the tagMQMD includes ( at the end)

MQCHAR4 ApplOriginData; /* Application data relating to */

/* origin */

/* Ver:1 */

MQBYTE24 GroupId; /* Group identifier */

MQLONG MsgSeqNumber; /* Sequence number of logical message */

/* within group */

MQLONG Offset; /* Offset of data in physical message */

/* from start of logical message */

MQLONG MsgFlags; /* Message flags */

MQLONG OriginalLength; /* Length of original message */

/* Ver:2 */


on z/OS the tagMQMD has


MQCHAR4 ApplOriginData; /* Application data relating to */

/* origin */

/* Ver:1 */


and not the V2 fields.


If I use sizeof(MQMD) to compare the size is as expected ( good defensive coding practice) it does not match.


I am trying to port common code from midrange to z/PS


The common code has built an MQMD, with the extra fields, but it is larger than expected, and so the defensive checks detect this, and will not accept the MQMD.


It should be common code so I can port applications between midrange and z/OS.


Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Mark Taylor
    Reply
    |     Jan 18, 2022

    Changing this on z/OS would have broken various compatibility requirements when the V2 MQMD was introduced. If you want to use the extended fields across platforms with no source code #ifdefs, then you can use the MQMD2 structure everywhere, or the MQMD (with or without being explicit about V1 as the distributed platforms still set the structure version to V1 by default) followed by an MQMDE. This is not something that will be changed.

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