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Texts on Message Modelling (IBM WebSphere Message Broker)

1. Modelling tagged fixed length data (raw file list)
   Originally announced in this blog post and here on MQSeries.net

2. Modelling a repeating structure with varying amount of key value pairs (raw file list)

Message modelling is the art of describing messages in formats that are not self-describing. Examples of such formats are CSV, COBOL Copybooks and other kinds of fixed length and delimited formats. To enable WebSphere Message Broker to parse these formats it must be told how to interpret the data, message modelling is the process of crafting such an description - called a Message Set.