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You may

also

want

to

index

(tag)

a

specific

page

within

the

statemen

summary

page.

The

following

is an

example

of

a

print

file

that

contains

group

level

as

well

as

at

the

page

level:

BDT

BNG

TLE Account #, 1ð1ð3ð

TLE Customer Name, Mike Smith

BPG

Page 1 data

EPG

BPG

Page 2 data

EPG

...

...

BPG

TLE Summary Page, n

Page n data

EPG

ENG

...

EDT

ACIF can accept as input files

that

contain

both group-level and page-le

tags.

In

the

case where ACIF indexes the

print file, it creates onl

fields

for

a

group

of

pages;

it

does

not

support

indexing specific

way to index both individual pages and groups of pages is through ch

application,

for

example,

using

the

AFP

Application

Programming

Interface.

can

also

use

the

input

record exit

of ACIF to insert TLE structured

AFP data stream (MO:DCA-P)

file,

where

applicable.

The

indexing

information

the

TLE

structured

field

applies

to

the

page or

group

containing

them.

of groups, the TLE structured field

can appear anywhere between a B

Group

(BNG)

structured field

and

the

first

page

(BPG

structured

fiel

In the case of composed-text pages, the TLE structured field

can app

following

the

Active

Environment

Group,

between

the

End

Active

Environment

(EAG) and End Page (EPG) structured

fields. Although

ACIF

does

not

limit

number of TLE structured fields that

can be placed in a group or pag

consider

the

performance

and

storage

ramifications

of the

number

includ

ACIF does not require the print file

to be indexed in a uniform manne

every page containing TLE structured fields does

not

have

to

have

the

number

of

tags

as

other

pages

or

the

same

type

of

index

attributes

This allows a great deal of flexibility for the application. When ACIF processing a print file that contains TLE structured fields, the resulta information file may contain records of variable length.

Format of the Resources File

ACIF retrieves referenced AFP resources from specified libraries and single file that contains these resources. Using ACIF, you can control resources as well as the type of resources in the file by using a

RESTYPE values and processing in the resource exit.

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