Patent ID: 8332537

Claim:
A method that allows a message written in a character set that a messaging-middleware environment is not configured to handle to be communicated through the messaging-middleware environment, the method comprising: receiving an instruction to set up a bypass channel that communicates messages between a first queue manager and a second queue manager, wherein an existing channel communicates messages between the first queue manager and the second queue manager; establishing the bypass channel between the first queue manager and the second queue manager, wherein the bypass channel has a channel definition that is identical to the existing channel's definition except that a conversion attribute is set to an opposite setting; generating a remote transmit queue that is managed by the first queue manager and is configured to transmit messages over the bypass channel; changing one or more settings within the first queue manager to route messages addressed to a transmit queue to the remote transmit queue, wherein the transmit queue is set up to communicate messages through the existing channel; generating a remote receiver queue managed by the second queue manager; and changing one or more settings within the second queue manager to route messages received by the remote receiver queue to a receiver queue.