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GLOBALS MENU
The Globals Menu, shown in Figure 5-14, requests information that applies
to the total reformat process. All information entered on the Globals
Menu relates to the output file produced when REFORMAT is run. Since
only one output file is generated for each REFORMAT execution, this
information appears only once in the reformat file.
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Figure 5-14. Globals Menu
When the Globals Menu is displayed, default values are shown for each
option. The possible values and their defaults are listed below. You
can change any of the values or you can keep the default values provided
by REFSPEC. Press ENTER to record the values and request the next menu,
the Input Forms Menu.
Fields
Output Record Specifies whether the output record is fixed, variable,
Format or undefined in length. Enter:
F - Fixed -length records
V - Variable -length records
U - Undefined-length records
Default = F (Fixed length)
Record Length A positive integer that specifies the total number of
characters in the output record, including all fields
and separators.
If the output records are fixed length and the total
number of characters is less than this length, the
record is padded with blanks at the end. If there are
more characters in the field than will fit in the
record, the record is written up to the specified length
and the excess characters are discarded. In this case,
a warning message is issued to the user who runs
REFORMAT.
For variable length records, the actual record length is
the sum of all the fields written to the record,
including separators. In this case, the record length
specified here is the maximum length allowed for any
record.
Default = 80 characters.
Upshift? Indicates whether letters of the alphabet are to be
shifted up to all uppercase letters when data is written
to the output file. Specified as:
Y--Shift letters to uppercase.
N--Leave letters as entered by the user.
Default = N (do not upshift).
If nothing is specified, an error is returned.
Convert to Indicate whether the output file is to be written in
EBCDIC? EBCDIC code rather than USASCII.
Y - write output file in EBCDIC
N - leave output file in USASCII
Default = N (do not convert).
Record Indicates a character or string of characters to be
Terminator appended to the end of every record. The record
String terminator may be specified as any of the following:
* Quoted String--Any USASCII characters, including
blanks, enclosed within single or double quotes.
For example: "eof" or " " or '**'.
* USASCII Code--Numeric equivalent to an USASCII
character preceded by a dollar sign ($). Code may
be any decimal number in range 0-127 (refer to
Appendix C for decimal equivalent to USASCII code).
For example: $34 is the numeric equivalent of
quotation mark; $65 is the equivalent of the letter
A.
* System Constant--The following system defined
constants may be used as a terminator:
$LF--line feed
$CR--carriage return
$GS--group separator
$US--unit separator
$RS--record separator
Default = No terminator
If a record terminator is not specified, no special
terminator is placed at the end of output records.
You can combine any of the above terminators into a
single terminator by specifying them one after the
other. For example: "end" $LF $CR or $120 "! " $CR or
"ABC" "DEF".
Such multiple terminators are concatenated together to
form a single string that is inserted between fields.
Note that blanks are optional except between quoted
strings where a separating blank is required. If a
blank does not separate quoted strings, the quote is
included; for example: "ABC""DEF" becomes ABC"DEF in
the record.
Field Separator A user-defined value to be inserted between all
String consecutive fields in the output record. It will not
appear after the last field in the record, or before or
after a constant. If two consecutive fields are
assigned specific column positions so that the second
does not immediately follow the first, the field
separator is placed after the first field. For example,
suppose the field separator is "**", and the fields are
defined as:
FIELD 1 value = ABCD start column = 5
FIELD 2 value = XYZ start column = 15
The output record for this example is shown below.
The separator may be a quoted string, a USASCII code, or
a system constant, as described above for the Record
Terminator.
Unless a separator is specified, fields in an output
record are not separated, but are written as one
continuous string of characters.
Default = No separator.
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