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UMF file conversion utility

The UMF file conversion utility is a utility that you can use to prepare incoming data files for processing by a pipeline.

The UMF file conversion utility can add required UMF tags to source files and can also add custom tags that you created for your implementation. It can also perform simple data transformations, such as formatting dates in a uniform style or combining separate address fields together into one new field.

Input files are transformed into UMF records by the UMF file conversion utility according to script files, which are identified by a .fp extension. After an input file has been transformed, the results are written to stdout or to a file that you specify.

Considerations

The UMF file conversion utility operates under the following assumptions:

Restriction: On AIX systems, the UMF file conversion utility cannot process input files that are larger than 2 gigabytes. The error states that the file cannot be found, and you must split larger files into files smaller than 2 gigabytes. The smaller files must contain complete UMF records. You cannot only use the UNIX split command to truncate files to less than 2 gigabytes. You need to look at the file content and ensure that the files are split correctly.


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Last updated: 2009