ChannelName (MQCHAR20)

This field specifies the channel definition name.

There must be a channel definition of the same name at the remote machine to be able to communicate.

The name must use only the characters:

  • Uppercase A-Z
  • Lowercase a-z
  • Numerics 0-9
  • Period (.)
  • Forward slash (/)
  • Underscore (_)
  • Percent sign (%)

and be padded to the right with blanks. Leading or embedded blanks are not allowed.

The length of this field is given by MQ_CHANNEL_NAME_LENGTH.

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