Data types of the fields in the WebSphere MQ headers

The fields in the WebSphere MQ headers have specific data types. Parsers are supplied for the WebSphere MQ headers listed below. The parsers determine the data type of each field in the header:

The mapping of the WebSphere MQ data types to the data types used in the broker is shown in the table below:

Data type of the field Represented as
MQLONG INTEGER
MQCHAR, MQCHAR4 CHARACTER
MQBYTE, MQBYTEn BLOB
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