Primitve type

[upoirier]

Hi:

I'm needing to convert a Cobol type, that I received from other application by mqseries, to Java type. My servlet is taken "29{" from message queue for a number "290". I assume that other application is sending a pic s9(3) or pic s9(3) comp, becuse this applcation is written in Cobol.

Thanks in advance,

Ulises Poirier.

 

[sedj]

I'm not sure what "pic s9(3) or pic s9(3)" are, but if you want to interface two languages (and data types) I would suggest doing it via some intermediate structure such as CORBA.

 

[Bong]

If you know what the data is underneath the applications, I suggest you read it in as binary (or hex) and convert it yourself to the data type you want.

Bob Rashkin
rrashkin@csc.com

 

[hologram]

The easiest way to do it is probably (if possible on your Cobol system) to let the Cobol program do a conversion to all Strings of a fixed size and on your java system convert from Strings to the types you want. [This is an (easy) example of what sedj proposed].