Use the ADDCRLF utility to prepare AFP resource files created in a Windows environment for uploading to z/OS systems. This utility adds carriage return/line feeds (CR/LF) to the files. The CR/LFs serve as record delimiters.
| Note | Some AFP resources, such as AFPBAT1 output from the GenPrint program, can have carriage return/line feeds (x’0D0A’) embedded in them. On these resources, the ADDCRLF utility will fail, giving you a message stating the data has embedded carriage return/line feeds (CR/LFs). If this happens, do the file transfer with no CR/LF, and then use the AFP2MVS utility on the z/OS system. |
ADDCRLFW /I /F
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Parameter |
Description |
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/I |
The AFP file name with the extension TMP, which you can omit. |
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/F |
Add this parameter to force the output file to be built, ignoring any embedded CR/LF errors. |
For the input file, the utility looks for the default extension TMP. For the output file, the utility will assign the extension IBM.
PSF software on the z/OS is record-oriented software. It needs each structured field record in an AFP resource such as font, formdef, overlay, page segment, and so on, in discrete records.
PSF2 on a Windows system has no concept of records. The entire datastream is a single record. If you use the system in a Windows environment to create AFP resources, and you want to transfer them to z/OS, you must insert CR/LFs at the end of each structured field and then use the CR/LF keyword on the file upload command.
ADDCRLF /I=afpfile
This creates a file called AFPFILE.IBM. The input file must have the extension TMP. You do not have to enter the extension if you enter the command as shown above. The output file will have the same file name, but with the IBM extension.
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