IF you think your only receiving a message payload of 1024, what are you using to verify the actual length of messages on the Queue. MQExplorer will tell you the size of the messages. Also, using the sample browse program, amqsbcg or amqsbcgc, will read the message and dump it to screen or a file and you can then inspect it to see the length. There could be a coupe of reasons why you are only seeing 1024. Not all to do with the actual length of the message.
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Robert (Bobbee) Broderick
Senior WebSphere Consultant
IBM
Madison AL
917-453-6790
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