Dot appended to the end of MQ message when passing it from C# .Net application to IBM MQ

Question

I am passing message from C# .NET 4.0 to MQ version: 7.5.0.5 . Snippet of the code

queue = queueManager.AccessQueue(strQueueName, MQC.MQOO_OUTPUT + MQC.MQOO_FAIL_IF_QUIESCING);

queueMessage = new MQMessage();

queueMessage.Format = MQC.MQFMT_STRING;
queueMessage.MessageType = 8;

queueMessage.CharacterSet = 1208; 

queueMessage.WriteUTF(message);

queuePutMessageOptions = new MQPutMessageOptions();
queue.Put(queueMessage, queuePutMessageOptions);
messageWrittenSuccessfully = true;
queue.Close();

I am getting the message with character followed by dot CER1.2.3.4. rather than CER1234

not sure if this is related to encoding or CCIS issue.

Answer 1

Set your CharacterSet to 437 for ASCII. Here is a nice long explanation of your issue.

Also, you should be using the MQ defines for MessageType:

queueMessage.MessageType = MQC.MQMT_DATAGRAM;