I did see a few hits on Google mentioning DB2 while I was researching the various code pages so you're probably right. We don't have DB2 and MQ was brought in as a black box that none of us was supposed to learn anything about.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: a codepage rant On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:22:11 -0500, Pommier, Rex R. <rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com> wrote: >OK, probably a dumb question but here goes anyway. > >We have z/OS MVS using code page 037 and z/OS UNIX using codepage 1047. >I just came across an issue at our site where we are using MQSeries >(excuse me, WebSphere MQ) to ship data to *nix machines. This issue is >that MQSeries is using by default codepage 500. Why on earth did IBM >decide to throw a third codepage into the mix? AARRRGGGGHHHH!!!! > >There I feel better, now. > (Disclaimer... I know very little about DB2 and less about MQ) Isn't MQ based on DB2 - at least originally? Isn't 500 is the default for DB2. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
