LINEOFFSET

Determines if ANSI carriage-control characters are used to calculate the record offsets when determining the location of the fields. Only the 0 (space two lines) and the dash (space three lines) are supported. The + (overstrike) character is not supported.

ACIF interprets the ANSI carriage control and then rewrites the input data as if it were printed using the "0" or "-" carriage controls. The index values must then relate to the newly formatted input file.

Platforms: Windows, AIX, (HP,SUN), and Linux

Required parm: No

Default Value: ASREAD

Data Type: AFP, Line

Parameters

LINEOFFSET=value

Options and values

The values can be:

ASREAD
ANSI carriage controls are not used to calculate the record offsets for the fields. The offsets are relative to the lines as they are read from the load file.
The indexing parameters to collect the account number and name are:
ASPRINTED
ANSI carriage controls are used to calculate the record offsets for the fields. The offsets are relative to the line spacing that occurs when the lines are printed.

Examples of LINEOFFSET:

1REPORT
-ACCOUNT 777777
0JOHN SMITH