Structured fields that ACIF uses

General-use Programming Interface and Associated Guidance Information is contained in this section.

This section describes these structured fields: Tag Logical Element (TLE), Begin Resource Group (BRG), Begin Resource (BRS or BR), End Resource Group (ERG), End Resource (ERS or ER), Begin Print File (BPF), End Print File (EPF), and No Operation (NOP). It also describes the formats of the resource files.

Note: All MO:DCA-P data and resource files that are processed by ACIF must contain a X'5A' carriage control character at the start of each structured field.

In this section:

  1. Tag Logical Element (TLE) structured field
  2. Begin Resource Group (BRG) structured field
  3. Begin Resource (BRS) structured field
  4. End Resource (ERS) and End Resource Group (ERG) structured fields
  5. Begin Print File (BPF) and End Print File (EPF) structured fields
  6. No Operation (NOP) structured field
  7. Format of the resources file
Parent topic: AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility: User's Guide