Count property

 

Purpose

The Count property represents the number of data items within a bag. This property corresponds to the MQAI call, "mqCountItems," in the WebSphere MQ Programmable Command Formats and Administration Interface.

 

Format

Count (Selector, Value)

 

Parameters

Selector (VARIANT) - input

Selector of the data items to be included in the count.

MQSEL_ALL_USER_SELECTORS is the default.

If the

Selector is not of type long, MQRC_SELECTOR_TYPE_ERROR is returned.

Value (LONG) - output

The number of items in the bag included by the Selector.

 

Visual Basic Language Invocation

To return the number of items in a bag:

ItemCount = mqbag.Count([Selector])