IBM S544-5285-01 manual With Literal, Example Bank Statement Input File

account

number, and you can retrieve and view the

same

statement

using

account

number.

If

the

data

value

you

want

to

use

in

an

indexing

tag

located

in the same place for

each

statement,

you

can

specify

ACIF

that create a separate group

of

pages for

each

statement. The ACIF

that

you

use in this caseTRIGGERn

are, theFIELDn

,

andINDEXn

parameters.

Indexing

with

Literal

Values:

Some

print

files

such

as

technical

documents

and

memos cannot be divided easily into groups of pages using

values

in

th

because no data value is consistently present

in

the

same

location.

Lik

output

of an application may not

contain

the

data you

would

like

to

us

indexing

tag. In these cases, you can

specify

one

or

more

literal

v

use

in

the

indexing

tags

for

a

single

group

of

pages.

The

ACIF

param

use in this caseFIELDnis theparameter.

Notes:

1. If

you are using ACIF to add indexing tags to

a

file,

and

the

contains

indexing

tags,

ACIF

issues

an

error

message

and

stops

proce

the

input file already contains indexing tags,

you

can

create

the

by

running

ACIFwithout specifying

any

indexing

parameters.

2.ACIF includes the name of the output document in the index object includes the name of the index object file in the output document, provides a method of correlating the index object file with the a output document.

An

Indexing

Example

Using

Data Values:

This example shows how to use the

ACIF

parameters

described

in

Chapter 2,

“Using

ACIF

Parameters

in

AIX”

page 23

and

Chapter 7,

“Using

ACIF

Parameters

in

OS/390, MVS, VM, and VSE”

on

page 87. Figure 6 shows

the

print file

for

a

typical bank

statement.

1ACCOUNT NUMBER: 445-66-3821-5

PAGE 1

CUSTOMER NAME: HENRY WALES

DATE: ð9/3ð/91

CHECK# ðð1 - 455.ðð

CHECK# ðð2 - 337.85

...

1ACCOUNT NUMBER: 333-56-4378-5

PAGE 1

CUSTOMER NAME: KATHERINE CHARLES

DATE: ð9/3ð/91

CHECK# 221 - 5.ðð

CHECK# 222 - 1567.35

...

Figure

6. Example Bank Statement Input File

In Figure 6, the print file contains bank statements

dated September

30,

(09/30/91). Each statement has

the

same

general

format,

although

statemen

vary

in size or number of pages.

Assume

you

want

to

index

the

bank

using the account number and

the date. Although the account number ide

each

customer's

account,

the

date is important to differentiate one mo

statement from another. For ACIF to

extract

the

account

number

and

dat

first

locate

the

records

that contain

the

required information.

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