CCTYPE
If the data contains carriage control characters, determines the type of carriage-control characters.
- Required
- No
- Default Value
- A (on a z/OS® system) or Z (on all other platforms)
- Data Type
- AFP, Line
ACIF supports ANSI carriage-control characters in either ASCII or EBCDIC and machine code
carriage-control characters. ACIF does not allow a mixture of ANSI and machine carriage-control
characters within a file. If you specify CC=YES and you do not specify the CCTYPE parameter,
then ACIF assumes that the input contains ANSI carriage-control characters encoded in ASCII. If
you are running ACIF on a
z/OS
system, then ACIF assumes
that the carriage-controls are encoded in EBCDIC.
Note: It is very important to correctly
identify the type of carriage control characters in the input file. ACIF might 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 might 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.
Syntax
CCTYPE=value
Options and values
The value parameter
can be Z, A, or M:
- Z
- The input contains ANSI carriage-control characters that are encoded in ASCII. The carriage-control characters are the ASCII values that directly relate to ANSI carriage-controls, which cause the action of the carriage-control character to occur before the line is printed.
- A
- The input contains ANSI carriage-control characters that are encoded in EBCDIC. The use of ANSI carriage-control characters cause the action of the carriage-control character to occur before the line of data is printed. If the input data is AFP, you should set CCTYPE=A and CC=YES.
- M
- The input contains machine code carriage-control characters. The use of machine code carriage-control characters cause the action of the carriage-control character to occur after the line of data is printed.