ENCODING

How numeric data in the body of a message is represented when the message is sent to this destination. The property specifies the representation of binary integers, packed decimal integers, and floating point numbers.

Applicable Objects

Queue, Topic

JMS administration tool long name: ENCODING

JMS administration tool short name: ENC

Programmatic access

Setters/getters

• MQDestination.setEncoding()
• MQDestination.getEncoding()

Values

ENCODING property

The valid values that the ENCODING property can take are constructed from the three sub-properties:

integer encoding

Either normal or reversed

decimal encoding

Either normal or reversed

floating-point encoding

IEEE normal, IEEE reversed, or z/OS

The ENCODING property is expressed as a three-character string with the following syntax:

{N|R}{N|R}{N|R|3}

In this string:

• N denotes normal
• R denotes reversed
• 3 denotes z/OS
• The first character represents integer encoding
• The second character represents decimal encoding
• The third character represents floating-point encoding

This provides a set of twelve possible values for the ENCODING property.

There is an additional value, the string NATIVE, which sets appropriate encoding values for the Java platform.

The following examples show valid combinations for ENCODING:

ENCODING(NNR)
ENCODING(NATIVE)
ENCODING(RR3)

Parent topic: Properties of IBM MQ classes for JMS objects