Identifies whether the input file contains form feed characters
( x'0C' ) to indicate a new page.
- Required
- No
- Default Value
- No
- Data Type
- Line
Attention: The FORMFEED parameter
is not available with the ACIF indexer on z/OS® or with the 400 indexer on IBM i®.
ACIF will
recognize the form feed character as the start of a new page. Set
this parameter in order to process the file without ACIF changing
the data. If you do not use the FORMFEED parameter,
the ACIF input exit asciinp is required in order
to load files that contain the form feed character. In Content Manager
OnDemand asciinp removes the x'0C' and inserts
an ANSI carriage control at the beginning of each line.
Attention: It is very important to correctly identify
the type of carriage control characters in the input file. ACIF may
process an input file even though the CCTYPE parameter
incorrectly identifies the type of carriage control characters in
the input file. However, the output file may be unusable. If you have
questions about the type of carriage control characters that are in
the input file, then you should contact someone who can help you inspect
the input data and determine the correct type of carriage control
characters in the input file.
Considerations:
- FORMFEED=YES is only allowed
with the CONVERT=NO, CC=NO,
and TRC=NO parameters. If
you specify CONVERT=YES (the
default), CC=YES (the default),
or TRC=YES and FORMFEED=YES,
ACIF will issue error message
APK493S:APK493S A VALUE OF YES
FOR THE FORMFEED PARAMETER IS NOT ALLOWED WITH THE CONVERT=YES, CC=YES,
OR TRC=YES PARAMETERS.
- If you wish to convert an input file that contains FORMFEED characters
to AFP, use the asciinp exit along with CC=YES, CCTYPE=A,
and CONVERT=YES.
- If you have been using the asciinp exit and
wish to use FORMFEED=YES instead,
you must create a new Application, because the Application and ACIF
parameters used with the asciinp exit are incompatible
with the parameters used for the FORMFEED parameter.
- The NEWPAGE parameter is only in effect when CC=YES.
Options and values
The
value can
be set to YES or NO:
- YES
- ACIF will recognize the form feed character ( x'0C' ) as the start
of a new page.
- NO
- ACIF will not recognize the form feed character ( x'0C' ) as the
start of a new page.