Use these positions to specify record format names and field names.
Refer to DDS Syntax Rules for rules to use when specifying record or field names in
DDS.
Name must begin in position 19.
Figure 297 shows how to specify record format names and field
names.
When you specify an R in position 17, the name specified in positions 19
through 28 is a record format name. You can specify more than one
record format for a printer file, but each name must be unique within that
file. You must also specify field names or constant fields to complete
a record format in a printer file.
When position 17 is left blank, the name specified in positions 19 through
28 is a field name. Field names must be unique within the record
format.
Constant fields are unnamed fields (positions 19 through 28 must be
blank). The following rules apply when specifying a constant
field:
- Positions 17 through 38 must be blank.
- The location of the field is required (positions 39 through 44).
- The field can be conditioned using option indicators (positions 7 through
16).
- A constant field cannot be specified in a record format that has a BOX,
ENDPAGE, GDF, LINE, OVERLAY, or PAGSEG keyword specified on the record, or a
POSITION keyword specified on any of the fields specified within the record
format.
- The constant itself is defined in positions 45 through 80 using one of the
following entries:
- Explicit DFT keyword (specify the value within apostrophes with the DFT
keyword)
- Implicit DFT keyword (specify the value within apostrophes without the DFT
keyword)
- DATE keyword (specify no value; see the DATE keyword description)
- TIME keyword (specify no value; see the TIME keyword description)
- PAGNBR keyword (specify no value; see the PAGNBR keyword description)
- MSGCON keyword (specify the message description, the message file, the
library name, and the length of the message description; see the MSGCON
keyword description)
- The EDTCDE or the EDTWRD keyword can be specified for constant fields only
when DATE, TIME, or PAGNBR keywords are also specified.
If you use line numbers you can specify the fields in any order. If
you do not use line numbers, you must specify the fields in the order in which
they are to appear on the printed page.
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