Creating MO:DCA-P object containers

Object containers are MO:DCA-P resources that contain non-OCA objects, such as TIFF images, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), JFIF, and microfilm setup. Object containers can be included in a data stream by using the Include Object (IOB) structured field. If you are including object containers from a page definition, see Processing resources installed with resource access tables.

Not all presentation systems can present non-OCA objects, but ACIF includes them as part of the resource object if the RESTYPE parameter is set to ALL or includes OBJCON. When ACIF processes an IOB, it checks that the object type value is X'92' for OTHER, and the named object that is read from the resource library is not already a MO:DCA-P object. ACIF then creates a MO:DCA-P object container object by wrapping the raw object data in Object Container Data (OCD) structured fields and creating an Object Environment Group by using the values that are given by the IOB. The result is a MO:DCA-P object container that is saved in the resource object file. For information about the structure of object containers, see Mixed Object Document Content Architecture Reference, AFPC-0004.