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Chapter 8. Example: ACIF Application in OS/390, MVS, VM, or VSE

In this example, a line-data application generates telephone bills, as Figure 24 on page 114. The objective is to make the billing applicat available on customer service representatives' workstations, so that whe customer calls with a billing inquiry, the representative can view the format as the customer's printed copy.

To achieve this objective, you must convert the output from the app document format that can be used with the Viewer application of AFP (hereafter called Viewer). You also need to index the file to fa file with Viewer. To ensure that all resources used in the bills a workstation, you need to use the resource retrieval function of ACIF.

The	tasks	are:
Ÿ	Examine	the input file to determine how				to tag it for indexing.
Ÿ	Create ACIF parameters for indexing and retrieving resources.
Ÿ	Determine the names of the resource libraries used when the bil
Ÿ	Determine the form definition and page					definition used to	print t
Ÿ	Create	JCL	for	the	ACIF job.
Ÿ	Run the	ACIF job.
Ÿ	Concatenate		the	index	object file and	the resource file	to the

ŸTransfer the document file in binary format to your workstation fo Viewer.

For	an	explanation		of	any	parameter not specifically described in thi
the	description		for		that	parameter in Chapter 7, “Using ACIF Parameter
OS/390,		MVS, VM,	and	VSE” on		page 87.

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