Coded string

Each request is specified as a single string of characters that has the following format:

<s><Job Identifier><s><Service><s>[<parameter 1><s>...]

Here, <s> is a single character that does not occur in the parameter data. Both the job identifier and the service name may not be empty and the request must end with the separator. The parameters are optional. The separator can be any character except a NUL character ('\0'), because the MQSeries code page translation treats a NUL character as the end of the string.

Example

#ITP Job#runmdl#order#

In the example above the '#' character has been used as the separator.