MQ decoding cuts off dots (...) and changes the message length - encoding

We are using IBM MQ Series 9 and we are facing a decoding problem.
The messages are being sent from a mainframe with an encoding of 424 (Hebrew) to a Windows-based system. The system pulls the messages out of the queue and parses the messages, and after that, cuts the messages in different parts for advanced parsing.
All messages might include Hebrew characters, hence I am obligated to use Hebrew encoding.
A message in the MQ can look like this:
9921388ABC.........3323DDFF.....43332FFF...2321......
After reading the message and parsing it using different code pages the message either doesn't reach the system (using 424, 916) or reaches the system but looks like this:
9921388ABC3323DDFF43332FFF2321
The messages are shorter and are unparseable.
I ahve tried to consult with our MQ people but they are clueless about this problem.
Would very appreciate any kind of help.
Thank you.

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Why is the DATA in SMTP not null terminated?

I was reading the original RPC about the SMTP Protocol and came across this section:
SMTP indicates the end of the
mail data by sending a line containing only a period.
Why did Postel decide to use the period as the terminator? Would it not be easier to use the already existing null terminator?
I see, that he would not want the users content to interfere with the protocol, but I would naively assume, that a user is more likely to use a period in one line than a null terminator?
Added to that, would the implementation of the mail client not just cut of the text if the user came to use the null terminator his mail contents?
IMHO: SMTP has be designed long time ago to be human readable/writable.
It is pretty simple to test (send simple SMTP messages) typing them by hand via telnet program.
"Human readable" makes null terminator a suboptimal choice.
EMSMTP design is a fossil of pre-spam era. It is bad (by current standards) but it is so widely implemented and sufficiently good (after fixes) to make any quick revolution "not sufficiently urgent".
Extra info: Seen RFC 3030 for BDAT alternative to DATA command.

SOAP Web Service Client error, While consuming the service

I am getting this error while using SOAP web service client with axis 1. I had created stub from the wsdl file and tried to consume it then I got this error. wsdl is given to me by someone else.
error in msg parsing: xml was empty, did't parse!
below is the error message and stack trace for the same. Anyone can help.?
In order to fix the javax.activation.DataHandler issue you must add the JavaBeans Activation Framework activation.jar in your classpath.
In order to fix the javax.mail.internet.mimeMultipart issue you must add the Java Mail API mail.jar in your classpath.
The warning messages printed in your console shows that the above jars are not in the classpath.
There are several common reasons to receive the message:
error in msg parsing: xml was empty, did't parse!
The most obvious is that no message was sent. If you have some way of inspecting your transport channel, that would be worth looking at.
Also, the xml message could have been sent in an unexpected character set, e.g. A header declares it to be "Utf-8" but it is really "Win-1252", sometimes you can get away with that if you only use 7-bit ASCII characters, but anything in the 8-bit plane will cause it to bomb.
Also, the xml message could have had a byte order mark unexpectedly inserted at the beginning of the message.
Also, the xml message might not have the document declaration ( starting in the first byte of the message, that violates the specification, and often causes parsers to puke and claim that no message was found.
All things considered with this error message, the parser was not able to find a valid xml message that it could parse, so it didn't. You need to grab the data on the transport channel and figure out what exactly is wrong to resolve the issue.

How do I decode a websocket packet?

I'm using Wireshark packet analyzer & when I filter for all "Websocket" packets I see what I am sending /receiving to the host. When I check individual packets mine always show as [MASKED], but you can 'Umask Payload' which shows the data in clear text that looks like this:
<IC sid="52ccc752-6080-4668-8f55-662020d83979" msqid="120l93l9l114l30l104"/>
However, if I 'Follow TCP stream & look at that same packet, the data shows up as encoded in some way like this:
....K#....../...y#..|...}...f...s...~...}...{G..r...kN.."G..z...r...'...'...z...d.
The problem is all Websocket packets I receive from the host come as encoded, it is NOT SSL & I can't figure out how to decode them, I have no idea what they are even encoded as (but yet my browser can decode it).
I assume that whatever method they are coming back to me as encoded data is the same method that my data is encoded when I use 'Follow TCP stream'.
Can someone please help me figure out how to decode the data the host is sending me? See host data below
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Client to server data is XORed with a mask (included in the dataframe). Some people suggest this is in order to throw off bad caching mechanisms responding to new websocket requests with server messages from older sessions. The masking makes sure that even messages containing identical data will appear differently to applications that do not understand websockets.
Also note that there are many different size options for the headers themselves.
Refer to RFC 6455 Section 5 which defines the masking/unmasking process for payloads sent from the client to the server.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6455
If you find any freeware VBA code to do the job of forming packets let me know! :-)

FIX Message Can 35=X does not have Symbol or SecID/SecIDSource

Hi I need help to understand, if 35=X message should contain Symbol/SecID within the repeating group.
The FIX Specification indicates that under the repeating group both 55 and 48/22 are optional.
I received a message from my client without a symbol tag, please help me undersatnd if that was a bad formed message
20150923-15:06:14.976 : 8=FIXT.1.19=33635=X34=19153349=SENDER52=20150923-15:06:14.63756=RECEIVER268=8279=0269=1270=99.609375271=289279=0269=1270=99.6171875271=241279=0269=1270=99.625271=154279=0269=1270=99.6328125271=139279=0269=0270=99.6015625271=268279=0269=0270=99.59375271=244279=0269=0270=99.5859375271=171279=0269=0270=99.578125271=21610=198
You are advised to treat the default FIX message and field definitions as a set of suggested definitions.
In practice, no commercial FIX counterparty uses these definitions as-is. Every counterparty I've connected to makes modifications, adding or removing fields from messages or groups, creating new fields, or sometimes adding entirely new messages. No counterparty supports every message and field.
When connecting to a counterparty, do not assume anything. Your counterparty should provide documentation on how they expect their interface to be used, and which messages and fields they will send and which they expect to receive from you.
You need to read their specs and modify your FIXnn.xml DataDictionary file to match what they will be sending you.
If their spec says they will send you Symbol and/or SecurityID in a 35=X message, you need to make sure your DD file matches that.
This page might be helpful to you. (It's technically for the C# QuickFIX/n, but the DD file is the same for all QF versions.)
http://quickfixn.org/tutorial/custom-fields-groups-and-messages.html

Trouble with message character encoding in Amazon SQS messages

I have a rather puzzling problem with Amazon SQS and Zend(1.11.2). I am sending a message to the queue that I have setup with a snip-it that looks like this:
$sqs->send($queueURL, "opt1=foo opt2=bar");
The message comes in to the app at the far side and is seen as:
"opt1%3Dfoo+opt2%3Dbar"
The receiving app is written in Java using the com.xerox.amazonws.sqs2 library and is in production now.
There was similar sending code in an older php module that used Tarzan under Drupal that worked just fine. I have searched high and low and read the documentation for Zend, Amazon and the Java library and I am stuck.
The encoding of the string is understandable but I don't recognize the method being used. Further tests show that single quotes, angle brackets, etc. are also escaped as hex.
Any ideas?
Ken
Typica (com.xerox.amazonaws) has a 'encoded' option that internally uses Base64 to encode messages. This is on by default.
In general, we have found that encoding messages using Base64 is less troublesome then URL/percent encoding when using SQS.
I would Base64 the message text in PHP, write it to the queue, and Typica should decode just fine using the default config.