3.5.2.2 Routing Field Description

The routing field can be of any data type supported in FML or VIEW. A numeric routing field must have numeric range values, and a string routing field must have string range values.

String range values for string, carray, and character field types must be placed inside a pair of single quotation marks and cannot be preceded by a sign. Short and long integer values are a string of digits, optionally preceded by a plus (+) or minus (-) sign. Floating point numbers are of the form accepted by the C compiler or atof(): an optional sign, followed by a string of digits optionally containing a decimal point, and an optional e or E followed by an optional sign or space, and an integer.

When a field value matches a range, the associated RDOM value specifies the remote domain to which the request must be routed. An RDOM value of * indicates that the request can go to any remote domain known by the gateway group. Within a range/RDOM pair, the range is separated from the RDOM by a colon (:).