Summary

We have requirement to connect to external MQ Server using Connect-JMS rule of Pega. The Request and Response message sent to the MQ server should be encoded with Thai Character set "TIS-620". By default Pega uses "UTF-8 without BOM" encoding while sending out Request message in Connect-JMS rule. How do we encode the request message to "TIS-620" format before sending message to MQ Server using Connect-JMS?

Error Messages

1. Sample Request Message constructed in Pega containing Thai Characters
<APPL_REF_NO>S20150114/111111111111111 /2222222222222|นยินดีต้อนรับาย|ยินดีต้อนรับ|ยินดีต้อนรับอรี่|S11111|0249|N|1980-02-14|15.21.49</APPL_REF_NO>

2. Sample Request Message received by MQ Server after calling Connect-JMS rule
<APPL_REF_NO>S20150114/111111111111111 /2222222222222|เธ™เยินดีต้อนรับ|เธžยินดีต้อนรับนˆยินดีต้อนรับ|เธ ‚เธยินดีต้อนรับฒ|S11111|0249|N|1980-02-14|15.21.49</APPL_REF_NO>

In the above message the Thai characters received by the MQ server were corrupted. The message should be sent to MQ in TIS-620 encoding only.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create Connector Activity
2. Create a Request message
3. Call Connect-JMS rule by passing the request message

Root Cause

The root cause of this issue was due to invalid message Properties set to the JMS Queue. Character Set identifier not set with any values.

Resolution

Set the Message properties - Character Set identifier in MQ understandable format i.e. “874” in message properties.