Service File form - Completing the Method tab
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Complete the Method tab to describe how the system detects fields and records in the input files.
Field | Description |
Processing Method | Select how the system uses the Parse Segment array (on the Request tab):
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Record Layout | |
Record Terminator | Optional. If the records end with a separator character, enter the delimiter character or characters that marks the end of a record in the input file. This field is used with the Type a single character, or enter one of these escape sequences:
You cannot enter octal- or hexadecimal-encoded characters value here. Many MS-DOS and Windows text files contain a newline (\n) character, not a return (\r) character, as the line terminator. |
or Record Length | Optional. If all records have a common length in characters or bytes, enter the length here. This value is used with the record at a time and by record type processing methods. Leave blank if the Processing Method is file at a time . If the Data Mode value is Leave this blank if you specified a terminator character, or if the Processing Method is |
Record Type Identifier | |
Offset | Optional. If the Processing Method is by record type , enter a byte offset (from the beginning of the record starting at 0) where the record type can be found. If the Data Mode value is |
Length | Optional. If the Processing Method is by record type , enter the length in bytes of the record type. If the Data Mode value is |
Data Description | |
Data Mode | Select text only , binary only , or text and binary :
This choice affects which methods can be used in steps of a Parse Delimited rule to parse the string. For example, you cannot use the Parse-Fixed-Binary method if you choose |
Character Encoding | Select the character encoding of the input file. As it reads the input file, the system converts the input from character encoding you specify here (such as ASCII,. Windows Latin-1 or EBCDIC) into Java String encoding (16-bit UNICODE). |
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