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Chapter 8. Example: ACIF Application in OS/390, MVS, VM,
or VSE
In this example, a line-data application generates telephone bills, as shown in
Figure 24 on page 114. The objective is to make the billing application output
available on customer service representatives' workstations, so that when a
customer calls with a billing inquiry, the representative can view the bill in the same
format as the customer's printed copy.
To achieve this objective, you must convert the output from the application into a
document format that can be used with the Viewer application of AFP Workbench
(hereafter called Viewer). You also need to index the file to facilitate searching the
file with Viewer. To ensure that all resources used in the bills are available at the
workstation, you need to use the resource retrieval function of ACIF.
The tasks are:
Examine the input file to determine how to tag it for indexing.
Create ACIF parameters for indexing and retrieving resources.
Determine the names of the resource libraries used when the bills are printed.
Determine the form definition and page definition used to print the bills.
Create JCL for the ACIF job.
Run the ACIF job.
Concatenate the index object file and the resource file to the document file.
Transfer the document file in binary format to your workstation for viewing with
Viewer.
For an explanation of any parameter not specifically described in this section, see
the description for that parameter in Chapter 7, “Using ACIF Parameters in
OS/390, MVS, VM, and VSE” on page 87.
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