Mixed Object Document Content Architecture data

Mixed Object Document Content Architecture (MO:DCA) is an architected, device-independent data stream that is used for interchanging documents between different systems. ACIF accepts MO:DCA Presentation Interchange Set (IS) data streams, including MO:DCA IS/3, which is the newest interchange set. MO:DCA IS/3 provides interoperability among AFP products that are MO:DCA IS/3 compliant. It also provides enhanced functions, including support for color and the latest fonts, images, and graphics.

ACIF supports MO:DCA-P data with these restrictions:

• Every structured field must be in one record and cannot span multiple records.
• Each record (structured field) must contain a X'5A' character before the first byte of the structured field introducer.

ACIF does not change most of the MO:DCA-Pstructured fields it processes because they are already in the correct format. However, although the MO:DCA-P input data stream might contain multiple Begin Document (BDT) and End Document (EDT) structured fields, the ACIF output normally contains only one BDT/EDT structured-field pair. To pass all of the BDT/EDT pairs to the output data stream, the INDEXOBJ=BDTLY parameter is specified. See Output MO:DCA-P data stream for information about the changes ACIF makes to support MO:DCA-P output format.

For more information about the MO:DCA-P data stream, see Mixed Object Document Content Architecture Reference, AFPC-0004.