IBM S544-5285-01 manual Tasks You Can Do with Acif, Bdt/Edt, Content Architecture Reference

Tasks You Can Do with ACIF

This section describes the three tasks for which you can use ACIF. listed in the order in which they are described, not in any orde should be done.

Ÿ Converting data streams

ŸIndexing documents

ŸRetrieving resources

Converting Data Streams

ACIF processes the following input data streams to create a MO:DCA-P d

ŸAFP data

ŸMO:DCA-P data

Ÿ S/370 line-mode data

ŸLine-mode data

ŸMixed-mode data

ŸUnformatted ASCII (AIX only)

The following sections describe each type of data and refer you publications, if you need to better understand them:

AFP Data: The AFP data stream is a superset of the MO:DCA-P data stre supports the following objects:

ŸGraphics (GOCA)

Ÿ	Presentation	text	(PTOCA)
Ÿ	Image (IOCA	and	IM)

ŸBar-code (BCOCA)

The AFP data stream also supports print resources such as fonts, over segments, form definitions, and page definitions. For more information o stream format, referMixed toObject Document Content Architecture, Reference which points to publications describing the other types of data obj

Mixed	Object	Document Content Architecture	Data:	ACIF supports MO:DCA-P
data	as	a valid input data	stream,	with the following restrictions:

ŸEvery structured field must appear in one record and cannot span records.

ŸEach record (structured field) must'5A ' contcharacterinX before the first byte of the structured field introducer.

ACIF	does not	change	the MO:DCA-P structured fields it	processes,	bec
are	already	in the	correct format. However, although	the MO:DCA-P	inpu

stream may contain multiple Begin Document (BDT) and End Document (EDT)

structured

fields,

the

ACIF

output

contains

only

one

BDT/EDT

structured

For

more

information

about this data strMixedam, Objectrefer Dtocument

Content

Architecture

Reference.

S/370 Line-Mode Data:

S/370 line-mode data is

characterized by

records

that may begin with a single carriage

control

character, which

may

single

table

reference

character

(TRC).

After

these

characters, ze

of

EBCDIC

data may follow.

ACIF formats

S/370

line-mode

data

into

pages

Chapter 1. Planning Your AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF)9 Applicatio