FORMFEED

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 400 indexer on IBM® i.

ACIF will recognize the form feed character as the start of a new page. The form feed character must occur in column 1 of the line which begins the 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 can 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.
Considerations:
  1. 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.
  2. If you want to convert an input file that contains FORMFEED characters to AFP, use the asciinp exit along with CC=YES, CCTYPE=A, and CONVERT=YES.
  3. If you have been using the asciinp exit and want 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.
  4. The NEWPAGE parameter is only in effect when CC=YES.

Syntax

FORMFEED=value

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.

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