Data conversion using the WebSphere MQ interface

The WebSphere® MQ-CICS Bridge is an asynchronous interface to the CICS® Service Flow Runtime.

If the service requester is a WebSphere MQ-enabled application, it is required to use the WebSphere MQ-CICS Bridge when invoking the CICS Service Flow Runtime.

When data conversion is required, it becomes the responsibility of the service requester, or it can be performed by writing a customized data conversion exit program. For detailed instructions on writing data conversion exits, see the WebSphere MQ Application Programming Guide.

If the service requester is required to convert application data between different machine encoding and CCSIDs, the service requester must conform to the WebSphere MQ data conversion interface. For information on the interface to the data-conversion exit, and the processing performed by the queue manager when data conversion is required, see the WebSphere MQ Application Programming Reference.