Encoding (MQLONG)

This specifies the numeric encoding of the data that follows the MQMDE structure; it does not apply to numeric data in the MQMDE structure itself.

On the MQPUT or MQPUT1 call, the application must set this field to the value appropriate to the data. The queue manager does not check that the field is valid. See the Encoding field described in MQMD - Message descriptor for more information about data encodings.

The initial value of this field is MQENC_NATIVE.