WebSphere MQ

Recently during modification of a program to communicate with WebSphere MQ (v6.0.2.7) I noticed that logs contain some exceptions of type EndOfStreamException. Since the adapter code was rather complex it took a while before I found a trivial cause of the problems ;)

If you want to put a message encoded in UTF-8 to WebSphere MQ queue, be sure to set CharacterSet property of MQMessage object to 1208. If you do not, the text will be encoded using UTF-16 (CCSID 1200).