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Advanced MQAI topics
Information on indexing, data conversion and use of message descriptor
- Indexing
- Indexes are used when replacing or removing existing data items from a bag to preserve insertion order.
- Data conversion
- The strings contained in an MQAI data bag can be in a variety of coded character sets and these can be converted using the mqSetInteger call.
- Use of the message descriptor
- The MQAI generates a message descriptor which is set to an initial value when the data bag is created.