TRANSFER Reference Manual

ALTER-ITEM-DES-B40
TISERV UOW Descriptions
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ALTERABLE-FIELDS
indicates what updating should be done to the fields for which Y was specified
under FIELDS-TO-ALTER. These fields and their allowable entries are defined as
follows:
ITEM-TYPE
indicates the type of the item, as defined by the application. Appendix A of
the TRANSFER Programming Guide lists reserved ITEM-TYPE values.
REL-DATE-EARLIEST, REL-DATE-LATEST, and REL-DATE-EXPIRATION
determines whether the entries you specify in the EARLIEST- DELIV-DATE,
LATEST-DELIV-DATE, and EXPIRATION-DATE fields are relative to the
dates with respect to particular delivery milestones or are absolute calendar
dates.
Y The dates are relative dates.
N The dates are absolute dates.
RESERVED-3
is reserved for use by Tandem. This field must be set to N.
EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE
is the earliest date at which the package can be delivered, specified either as an
absolute calendar date or as a number of time units from submission time. An
absolute or relative date is indicated by the REL-DATE-EARLIEST field.
EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE and LATEST-DELIV-DATE together define the
delivery window within which the TRANSFER delivery system must deliver
the package. If the TRANSFER delivery system is unable to deliver the
package to one or more recipients during the delivery window, it returns the
package to the sender with an explanation and discontinues further delivery
attempts. Under no circumstances is a package delivered sooner than its
EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE. You can regard the EARLIEST-DELIV-DATE as the
effective submission date of the package—in other words, as the postmark.
In DELTA-TIME, UNITS is the unit of time denoted in QUANTITY. You can
set UNITS to D (for days), H (for hours), or M (for minutes). To specify one
day, for example, set QUANTITY to 1 and UNITS to D.
LATEST-DELIV-DATE
is the latest date at which the TRANSFER delivery system can deliver the
package, specified either as an absolute calendar date or as a number of time
units from EARLIEST- DELIVERY-DATE. An absolute or relative date is
indicated by the REL-DATE-LATEST field.