IBM S544-5285-01 manual ‘literal, Unbounded, Value, Dummy

applications that use a specific carriage control character to

boundaries

(for

example,

skip

to

channel

1),

consider

defining

the

the carriage control character as one n

ofparamthetersTRIGGER.The

supported range of valuescolumn forare

1–32 756. If the specified

value

exceeds

the

physical

length

of

the

record,

ACIF

reports

an

err

and

terminates

processing.

length

Specifies

the

number

of

contiguous

bytes

(characters)column

starting a

that compose this field. The

supported

rangelengthofis values1–250. for

The field can extend outside the record

length,

as

long

as

the

where it begins lies within record

length.

In

this

case,

ACIF

a

blanks (X'40 ') to fill out

the record. If the field begins outsi

length of the record, ACIF reports an error condition and termina

processing.

{ ‘literal

value’'literalX

value

'}

(constant)FIELDnvalue

Specifies

the

literal

parameterofthe

. This

value

can be specified either as character data or as

hexadecimal

literal value can be 1–250 bytes in length. ACIF does

not

perform

validity

checking

on

the

actual

content

of

the

supplied

data.

EXAMPLE

FIELD1=ð,2,2ð

FIELD2=5,5,1ð

FIELD3=–15,3ð,5

FIELD4=‘444663821’

FIELD5=X'ððð1'

The first field in the

example is located in the indexing ancho

(TRIGGER1). It is 20 bytes in length, starting at the second

b

record. The second field is located five records

down

from

the

anchor record. It is 10

bytes

in

length,

starting

at

the fifth

The

third

field

is located

15

records

before

the

indexing

anch

5 bytes in length, starting at byte 30. The fourth

and

fifth

f

(constant)

values.

One

is

specified as character data (for exa

EBCDIC),

and

the

other

is

hexadecimal

data.

ACIF allows fields to be

defined but never referenced as part

Because ACIF requires either a

field or TRIGGER to appear

on

page of a logical document, INDEXSTARTBYunless

the

parameter

is

used, you can satisfy this requirement

by

defining

a

“DUMMY”

f

DUMMY field allows ACIF to determine the beginning page of

a

logi

document, but it is not

used as part of an index.

If

you

spe

INDEXSTARTBY

parameter,

start

counting

on

the

first

page

on

whic

have a valid field, not

a

DUMMY

field.

FONTECH=

unbounded

Indicates

that

ACIF

should

process 3800 or unbounded box fonts.

FONTLIB=

data

set

name1[,data

set

name2][,data

set

name] ...(OS/390

and

MVS)

Specifies

the

data

sets

that

compose

the

font

library.

A

maximum

can be specified. This parameter

also

specifies

the

concatenation

when ACIF searches for a

particular

font

resource.

ACIF

first

looks

resourcedatain set name1. If it

cannot

find

thedataresourceset ,name1it

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