Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.6

Using Fixed Length AL3

This topic describes the fixed length AL3 Data Element Separation method.

This is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the product and an alternative will be provided.

You can select the value Fixed Length AL3 for the Data Element Separation property for complex types within a message that conforms to the ACORD AL3 standard. This allows different versions of the ACORD AL3 standard to be supported using the same message set. This value is similar to the value Fixed Length except for the following:

  • A question mark (?) in the left-most position of an element means that it is skipped.
  • A sequence of question marks is inserted for all missing optional elements.
  • Unused trailing optional elements are truncated.
  • Any <CR><LF> after the last element is ignored.
  • The length field is extracted on input (and not put to the tree), and automatically recalculated on output.

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