When a message is sent to the message queue and the CCSID of the message queue is 65535 or 65534, no conversion occurs on the message. The message-level CCSID is set to the CCSID specified.
For example, message queue MYMSGQ has a CCSID of 65534. You enter the following Send Message command:
SNDMSG MSG('MSG #1') CCSID(37) TOMSGQ(MYLIB/MYMSGQ)
The immediate message text, MSG #1, is not converted when added to the message queue. The message is tagged with CCSID 00037.