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Additional variables definition file for the UMF file conversion utility

An additional variables definition file defines the field names and field lengths of the additional fields that you want the UMF file conversion utility to add to each incoming record.

You can also use the additional variables definition file when you want to combine two or more fields together by creating an additional variable definition field in which to place the combined information. For example, if the source data has address information in several fields, you must combine those fields because the entity database uses only one field called ADDR1 to store that address information. To correctly transform and format data found in the multiple incoming address fields, the UMF file conversion utility needs to know there will be one target field named ADDR1 and the length of that field. You must define that field name and length in the additional variables definition file.

Format

The format of a definition file is:

field name,field size

Do not include a space after the comma.

Example

This is an example of an additional variables definition file called outputvariables.def.
NumType1,5
NumType2,5
AttrType1,32
AttrType2,32
AttrType3,32
AttrType4,32
Signature,32
Addr1,255
PAddr1,255
Full_name,255
DsrcAcct,40


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