I have some questions regarding the rules Natural generates 3270 stream from a map.
- Let’s say there is a sequence of fields like the following:
0100 008T FELD001 (AD=OIL ) /.01U004 A004 .
0101 013T FELD002 (AD=OIL ) /.01U004 A004 .
0102 018T FELD003 (AD=OIL ) /.01U002 A002 .
0103 021T FELD004 (AD=OIL ) /.01U002 A002 .
In the 3270, there’s just one field which begins in column 8 and spans over all the 4 fields above. Is that some kind of compression? Can it be predicted when parsing the map? - For the following sequence of fields:
0200 060T FELD60 (AD=OIL ) /*.01U002 A012 .
0201 /
0202 001T ‘POLICY’
the last 8 characters of the first row are combined with the first field of the next row to produce a 3270 field like this:
POLICY
I’m building a 3270 parser for Natural, and understanding of these phenomena is very important.
Thanks,
Viktor