Data types of the fields in the IBM MQ headers

The fields in the IBM® MQ headers have specific data types. Parsers are supplied for the headers included in IBM MQ messages.

The parsers determine the data type of each field in the header:

The mapping of the IBM MQ data types to the data types used in the integration node is shown in the following table.

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