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Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Programming Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
| Summary Of Changes ................................. xi
About This Publication ................................ xiii
Why Should I Read This Publication? ........................ xiii
What Do I Need To Know? .............................. xiii
How This Publication Is Organized .......................... xiv
What Terms Are Used In This Publication? ..................... xv
Related Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Understanding Syntax Notation ........................... xvi
Highlighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Part 1. Information Common to AIX, OS/390, MVS, VM, and VSE Environments 1
Chapter 1. Planning Your AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF)
Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
What Can I Do with ACIF? ............................... 3
Using ACIF for Different Tasks ............................. 5
Tasks You Can Do with ACIF ............................ 9
What Other IBM Products are Related to ACIF? .................. 15
The Workbench Viewer ............................... 15
AFP Toolbox for Multiple Operating Systems .................. 16
Document Composition Facility (DCF) ...................... 17
What are the Systems Considerations for ACIF? ................. 17
System Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
System Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Part 2. Using ACIF in the AIX Environment ........................... 21
Chapter 2. Using ACIF Parameters in AIX .................... 23
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Flags and Values .................................... 27
Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Implementation Specifics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
NLS Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Suggested Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 3. Example of an ACIF Application in AIX .............. 53
The Input File ...................................... 55
Specifying ACIF Processing Parameters for ASCII Input Data .......... 55
Copyright IBM Corp. 1993, 1999 iii