COBOL Binary field problem.

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Hello.
I have the following EntireX enviroment for a PoC:

  • EntireX 7.2.2 in Windows 2003 Server.
  • BROKER Stub for COBOL in VSE/ESA mainframe (COBOL ACI CLIENT)
  • NATURAL For Windows XP (NATURAL ACI SERVER)
  • I am using the new RELAY MANAGER for VSE (All is working fine)

My only problem is passing a COBOL field of type “PIC S9(4) COMP” to the Natural Server (B2)??, I don’t know how to handle.

COBOL send me the following values (20B4) → is 8372. and
The Natural Server recieves (1AA9) → 6825.

I receive Packed ok and the rest OF Fields are ok.

Appreciate any help.

Grettings.

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This will probably never work. Your client is on VSE and your server on Windows and thus the Broker is doing a EBCDIC - ASCII translation on your message data. If your message has embedded binary data the translation will corrupt this data.

If you really want to send a mixture of alphanumeric and binary data types you should consider using RPC.