TRANSFER Reference Manual

ALTER-ITEM-DESCR
TISERV UOW Descriptions
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package with a nonzero expiration field, the TRANSFER delivery system
increases that field so that it exceeds the configured minimum value.
The interval between the LATEST-DELIV-DATE and EXPIRATION-DATE is
the package expiration time window. You can specify the EXPIRATION-
DATE as an absolute calendar date or a number of time units from LATEST-
DELIV-DATE. An absolute or relative date is indicated by the REL-DATE-
EXPIRATION field.
PRIORITY
determines the priority at which the package is sent, allowing you to classify a
package according to its urgency. The field can have an unsigned value from
0 (lowest priority) to 199 (highest priority). Packages are sent in decreasing
order of numeric priority; when two or more packages are assigned the same
numeric priority, the packages are sent in order of submittal date.
Priority overrules submission time in determining when a package is sent; a
high-priority package goes before a package of low priority, even if the low-
priority package was submitted earlier. Assigning a high priority to new
packages might prevent older packages from being delivered within the
requested timeframe.
AGENT-SELECTOR
is the agent selector criteria, as created by the ALTER-AGENT-SELECT UOW.
This is a number that is stored with the package to determine which agents are
invoked when the package is delivered. See the description of the ALTER-
AGENT-SELECT UOW in this section.
See Appendix B, “Status Packages,” on the use of agent selectors in
TRANSFER status packages.
DELIV-CONTROL-FLAGS
specifies whether or not the package is certified. Fields within DELIV-
CONTROL-FLAGS are as follows:
CERTIFIED
specifies whether the package is certified; that is, whether a certification
package is returned to the sender whenever a recipient acknowledges
receipt of a package via the ACK-RECEIPT UOW.
Y Flag the package for certification.
N Do not flag the package for certification.
If a recipient also has requested receipt notification, the receipt notification
status package is returned, not the certified TAREQ event package.