The Northern Territory Government now has a generic CICS interface to its Government Accounting System (GAS) through message broker.  It has taken a while but we have finally got the CICS node working correctly.  The trick is to convert the message content into EBCIDIC  for the COMMAREA

        -- CCSID 500 for CICS COMMAREA --

SET OutputRoot.BLOB.BLOB = ASBITSTREAM(InputRoot.MRM OPTIONS options

ENCODING BITOR(MQENC_INTEGER_NORMAL, MQENC_DECIMAL_NORMAL, MQENC_FLOAT_S390)

CCSID 500 SET 'PHIGBLG002001'

TYPE 'msg_DFHCOMMAREA' FORMAT 'Binary1' );