IBM S544-5285-01 manual Indexing With Data Values, Literal Values

file in structured-field format. ACIF inserts these same structured f object file. (The tags are contained in Tagged Logical Element [TLE] st fields, which are described in Appendix A, Helpful Hints and 36) You indexing-tag structured fields to identify1Figurea group5showsof thepages. relationship between the group-level tags and the entries in the inde

Figure 5. AFP Document with Index Tags and the Index Object File

ACIF can create an index object file for the following types of in

Ÿ S/370 line-mode data or mixed-mode data

ŸUnformatted ASCII data

ŸAFP data produced by the AFP Application Programming Interface, Docu

Composition Facility (DCF), or by AFP Toolbox, with or without indexing

Note: In this	instance, you are producing an index	object file	f
that contains index tags. You are not adding		new indexing	ta
existing	file.

ŸAFP data produced by any other application

ACIF

provides the following

ways

for

you

to

generate

the

indexing

ta

the

print

file:

Ÿ

Using

values

present

in

the

input

data

itself,

when

the

data

has

so

that

ACIF

can reliably

locate

the values. This

kind

of

indexing

indexing

with

data

values.

Ÿ

Using

literal

values

that

you

specify

to

ACIF,

which

is

useful

w

you want to use in

the

indexing tags

are

not

consistently

present

This kind of indexing indexings calledwith

literal

values.

Indexing

with

Data

Values:

Some

applications

such

as

payroll

or

accounting

statements contain

data

that

might

be

appropriate

to

use

for

indexi

bank

statement

example,

the

account

number

is

a type

of

data

value

want

to

tag.

You

can

then

archive

a

single customer's

account

stateme

1 With ACIF, you can generate group-level tags; with Document Composition Facility (DCF), AFP Toolbox, and AFP App Programming Interface (AFP API), you can generate both group-level tags and page-level tags. These products later in this chapter.

Chapter 1. Planning Your AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF)11 Application